As the United States marks its 250th anniversary today,

remember Erma Bombeck’s timeless quote about the way the nation has celebrated Independence Day-

including “family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy and the flies die from happiness.”

“You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.”

 

 

 

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photo/book source: ‘The Animal Picnic”, Ernest Nister, Philomel Books, 1988,

reproduction of original from the 1890’s