From the age of big brother.

If they want to get you, they'll get you.

DNS specifically targets the communications of everyone.

They're collecting your communications.

Police days we seem to spend so much of our time and energy surviving and reacting to the unhappy events and the strife and the conflict in our overcrowded world.

But the bicentennial seemed to awaken a certain feeling, a rather dormant spirit that too often seems to be missing from our modern life.

Call it patriotism, call it a rebirth of pride, call it whatever you will.

But if you mingled with the crowds who watched up sail in the fireworks yesterday,

or came down for a last fling like these people at the South Street Seaport this afternoon,

you might have felt what we did, a great sense of joy and well-being. For the first time in many

years, New Yorkers of all ages and backgrounds,

out in force, celebrating together. It reminded you of a small town celebration of the 4th of July,

an idealized Norman Rockwell tableau. Only it wasn't a small town scene, not with these hundreds of thousands

out to see the ships, young families, older people, in many cases, grandparents,

parents, children celebrating together. And if you talk to them, you found they articulated

what your eyes were seeing, a patriotic euphoria. Bitter, angry, controversial years forgotten,

at least for this moment, unity, reborn pride.

Are you a patriotic nut?

No, not at all.

Then what happened to you?

We just got caught up in the feeling.

I didn't think I was going to care,

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