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America's 250th Independence Day drew packed crowds to the Great American State Fair, where families from Texas to Florida to New Jersey gathered not just to watch fireworks but to make an argument about national identity through their presence.
If the republic's critics expected a country too fractured to celebrate itself, the fairgrounds offered a rebuttal in real time.
A Generation Gap — and an Attempt to Close It Tom Rutledge, a grandfather who traveled from Texas, brought his 13-year-old grandson specifically to fill what he described as an educational void.
Rutledge told Fox News Digital he felt an obligation to show the boy what formal schooling had not adequately communicated about the country's meaning and the cost of its founding.
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