Celebrating Independence: Comparing and Contrasting America and Honduras
John Adams, a member of the continental congress said in a letter to his wife in 1776, Independence Day “ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from the time forward forever more.” [1] Three centuries later, American has not forgotten this prophecy, for I have experienced the zeal, the patriotic fervor, first hand. John Adams It’s the same story every year: My mother shakes all of us awake at the crack of dawn on the 4 th of July [2] , we scramble, groggily, to get ready for the day (clad in all red, white and blue, of course), and we squeeze into the minivan, zooming off to the Lake Tahoe town square. The town parade is a spectacle: candy being tossed like confetti, children devouring corn dogs, country music twanging away, lawn chairs sprinkled across the streets, blueberry pancakes being flipped on steaming grills. The air smells like dough, like sweet sy