OPINION: You’re Free on Independence Day

There’s no prescribed way to celebrate July 4th. And that’s the best part of it.
Donald Trump is recruiting some Abrams tanks and obsessing about some of the choreography for an Independence Day parade in Washington D.C. He wants it to be militaristic, bombastic, and he wants to be at the center of it. I couldn’t care less. And, I wonder why anyone else does.

I can’t remember ever paying attention to how this day was celebrated in the capital city. In recent years I’ve taken my kids to...