Independence Day: Celebrate our liberty but the work is far from over
American freedom is not a settled thing.
Independence Day is not just another holiday, not just another day off from work, not just a good excuse to eat hot dogs, for this first-generation American.
More than six decades ago, the first members of my family fleeing Castro’s Cuba, my grandfather and his brothers, landed in Florida seeking refuge from the dictatorsh…
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