Happy Independence Day!

Needless to say, a lot has changed since this 1943 parade in downtown Menasha, but despite my living elsewhere, Menasha is, was, and will always be my hometown. 

As Erma Bombeck once said, "You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism." 

Here's wishing you an overdose of patriotism today.  Happy 4th of July!