The Fourth
Photo credit: Library of Congress The Fourth It was July 4, 1981, and I drove around a rotary in Narragansett, Rhode Island. On the car radio, the DJ almost seemed to plead in her delivery about the country still being ours, that we had to act, and that saving the nation from Reaganism was foremost in her mind. The antiwar movement from the Vietnam War was not quite in the rearview mirror of history. Now,…