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Happy Independence Day. The sentiment has nothing to do with the movie of the same name. Independence Day is a good time for reflecting upon that independence and the changes that have occurred in this country since that first celebation so very long ago. Even in my own life, the changes have been drastic. When I was born, there was no such thing as Social Security. The governemnt, for the most part, knew that we the people had individual intelligence of our own. They gradually stopped believing that as laws were enacted taking our freedoms from us, one by one. Yet we are still the freest country on the globe. No Independence Day celebration would be complete without this classic clip, performed by James Cagney, and written by the great George M. Cohen, who was the original YANKEE DOODLE DANDY.

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