Was there anything that got you more excited as a kid than the fourth of July fireworks? Years later it’s still a thrill to look up at the exploding sky and realize that, at that very same moment, millions of people in four different time zones are doing exactly the same thing and feeling exactly the same way. Millions of people from millions of backgrounds and cultures and beliefs, all thinking the same thing on one dazzling night in July: “What a country.”
