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Article: July Fourth fireworks, festivals.
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- San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 2007
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Byline: Greg Young and Pamela Moreland
Jun. 28--President John Adams was right when he said the Fourth of July "ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other."
Simply put, July 4 is the birth date of the United States. On that day in 1776 in Philadelphia, the Second Continental Congress adopted the final draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Those words still ring clear even in the 21st century: "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable ...