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HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM THE CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS! ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/navypierfireworks1.jpg)
Here are fireworks looking out over Lake Michigan toward Navy Pier... ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/navypierfireworks02.jpg)
...and a view from the ground. A lot of cities have fireworks, but... ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/jimpeterik1.jpg)
How many can give you Jim Peterik performing his "Vehicle" unplugged, with the crowd singing the horn part? ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/offbroadway04.jpg)
And how many can give you Off Broadway (USA)? ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/offbroadway02.jpg)
They got a good, good band with a U.S. beat... what else could you want for July 4th? ![](http://www.claudepate.com/albums/Graphics/iraqjuly4th2005.jpg)
If you answered, "a respite for some of our troops at Camp Victory in Baghdad," you got that too. And they will soon be joined by Lena Haddix, a 73-year-old great-grandmother who recently finished a six-month deployment to Kuwait and then signed up for a six-month deployment to Baghdad. I will be celebrating the fact that people with the highest standard of living and the lowest taxes in the Western World fought a sometimes unpopular war for our freedom. For some reason, the fact that this nation was started by "the colonial American elite" does not make me want to join Flag-burning Day activities. I'll be back to the usual on Tuesday. In the meantime, if you missed it, scroll down for a little bit on Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement posted Sunday.
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