For many Americans, including a great many right here in Superiorland, Independence Day has become no more than a holiday from work, one on which picnics, fireworks and concerts are the order of the day. Some find time to fit in the patriotic programs and parades held in many communities. Most of them — not inappropriately — are celebrations of our nation’s founding and its greatness. Ours is a great nation. We know of none other on the face of the earth in which the combination of liberty, prosperity, societal compassion, good people, culture and the wonderful land itself even approaches ours. We truly have been blessed. We Americans have good reasons to celebrate our beginnings and what we have become, then. Independence Day should be more than a celebration, however. Thoughtful Americans should use it as a day for reflection upon our nation’s foundations and whether we have built wisely upon them. For the most part we have.