Each Fourth of July we, as a country, look forward to a day of celebrating our independence. A typical celebration is filled with parades and picnics, barbeques and beaches, friends and fireworks – just as John Adams suggested should happen. He wrote on July 3, 1776 that the signing of the Declaration of Independence should be a "great anniversary Festival" and "solemnized with Pomp and Parade, with Shews, Games, Sports, Guns, Bells, Bonfires and Illuminations from one End of