Our flag, history, and culture seem to offend many people these days, but our benefits don’t offend anybody, other than perhaps a few hard-working taxpayers.
Odd.
It is remarkable — and very sad — how far we’ve come from the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations, which, despite coming hard on the heels of Watergate and the pathetic end of the Vietnam War, were almost universally and gleefully celebrated by all.
