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Article: Victoria Advocate, Texas, News to Me column: Luminous candles on nation's birthday cake.
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- Victoria Advocate (Victoria, TX)
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- July 2, 2006
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Byline: Jim Bishop
Jul. 2--"What the people want is very simple -- they want an America as good as its promise." Barbara Jordan, congresswoman from Texas, 1973-79 Happy July Fourth, and happy birthday, U.S.A. Yeah, I know it's a couple of days early, but maybe we should get started placing some of the 230 candles on America's cake, pausing a moment here and there between the barbecues and the beach parties and the fireworks. I thought it would be neat this year to pick out a few of the defining moments in American history and represent each of them by a single one of those candles on the cake. The trick is to pick the most important among those ...