Sgt Sostand
07-04-03, 06:02 PM
Bush praises troops in Dayton; early fireworks
in Chicago
July 4 — America celebrated its 227th birthday by opening a new museum for the Constitution in its birthplace, marking the centennial of aviation and giving a red-white-and-blue welcome to troops returning home to Kansas from Iraq. Meantime, less stressed-out than they were last Independence Day, which was celebrated in the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, more Americans were expected to take to the highways and skyways this weekend than during any other July 4th in the last nine years.
in Chicago
July 4 — America celebrated its 227th birthday by opening a new museum for the Constitution in its birthplace, marking the centennial of aviation and giving a red-white-and-blue welcome to troops returning home to Kansas from Iraq. Meantime, less stressed-out than they were last Independence Day, which was celebrated in the shadow of the Sept. 11 attacks, more Americans were expected to take to the highways and skyways this weekend than during any other July 4th in the last nine years.