And the pursuit of happiness. The fourth of july is there for because of these words, essentially the celebration of american ideals, the equality, national unity, of freedom from a bullying government, of the dignity of the individual person. Yet it is on this fourth of july and in this city that this president has decreed that a procession of combat tanks will line the capital while the president speaks to the nation flanked by the nations highest ranking military chiefs. For the first time in the history of our democratic republic, we are being instructed to honor not the declaration of independence, but our military power. And this must be said the grandeur of donald j. Tumps personal self. There is a danger being risked in such a promenade tomorrow. Who come to washington will come to champion the president , this president. Others will not be so moved. A country already divided with such malice by this president faces the peril of driving that wedge even deeper between us. To hop