On this Independence Day, our country is once again sharply divided as it copes with two wars, as it struggles over how to recover from an economic recession and how to reform health care, and as it wrangles over how to deal with what will probably be the worst environmental catastrophe to befall our country: the disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Many point to such divisions and ask what we have to celebrate and what our nation should be proud of on this Fourth of July.

To read what our nation should be proud to celebrate on this 234th Independence Day please click here.

Wishing all Open Salon readers a great Independence Day.

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