Fourth of July

Nick Paumgarten: Falling tree limbs, oil spills: Who's to blame?
Last month, after a limb fell from an elm tree near the Central Park Zoo, critically injuring a woman and killing her infant daughter, citizens wondered, as citizens will, how such a thing could be allowed to happen. When trees kill, as trees will, you blame it either on the . . .

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Fourth of July
I come from a generation much different from my children and grandchildren. When my parents were growing up, they were the recipients of the Great Depression; although there was a sense of hopelessness in America, their unrelenting respect for America and faith in God instilled by their parents impelled them to overcome.

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