July 4, 2012 -- Independence Day

By Michael J.W. Stickings

We had our day three days ago. Now it's the Americans' turn.

Happy Fourth of July, my American friends and family!

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We'll have several new posts up today, but let's start off by posting this clip of Bruce Springsteen, as American a musician as there is, performing "Independence Day" with The E Street Band at MSG on November 8, 2009.

Well Papa go to bed now it's getting late

Nothing we can say is gonna change anything now

I'll be leaving in the morning from St. Mary's Gate

We wouldn't change this thing even if we could somehow

Cause the darkness of this house has got the best of us

There's a darkness in this town that's got us too

But they can't touch me now

And you can't touch me now

They ain't gonna do to me

What I watched them do to you...