<![CDATA[It's a Hollow Feeling This Fourth of July]]>

1.0 link 24362 <![CDATA[It's a Hollow Feeling This Fourth of July]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeralyn-merritt/its-a-hollow-feeling-this_b_24362.html America. Land of the free, home of the brave. I used to enjoy the 4th of July, with all its connotations to freedom and democracy. This year it rings hollow.

We may still be the home of the brave -- witness the troops risking their lives in Iraq and Afganistan -- but we are no longer the land of the free, and now I feel sad when I see pictures of the Liberty Bell accompanied by the slogan, "Let Freedom Ring."

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