July 4 is here, my favorite holiday! I was thinking all day what I would write here about our great country and the struggle for freedom all over the world. I couldn’t. There are too many words and too many ways to say them. So instead, I will implore you all to take the day off and spend the time with your friends and family. Celebrate and, most of all, appreciate the freedom that we as a nation are always fighting for. At the end of the day, remember that there are still many people facing the struggles that our forefathers did over 200 years ago.

So with that in mind, God bless our freedom, God bless our military for defending it, and God bless America!

… But that’s not all. This will be the only post today, so as an added bonus what I would like you all to do is leave trackbacks for your own independence day, freedom, military, whatever posts. I’ll stop by throughout the day and add your trackbacks to a list on the post so that others can read. Got that? Cool. Have fun!

Links:

This week’s carnival of revolutions is up, full of democracy goodness!
Miguel Buitrago of Bolivia wishes us all a happy fourth of July!
Joe Katzman rounds up lots of posts in the blogosphere.
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi wants people to stop questioning his patriotism!

PS: I want to give a shout-out to the people of Ethiopia, at home and abroad, who are right now fighting for their freedom amid a rigged election. Many of the major Ethiopian news sites are linking here because of the news of a big diaspora rally in Atlanta this week. I promise to them that I’ll cover it as widely as possible.