Nearly half of Americans don’t know what they’re celebrating on July 4, poll finds
(www.independent.co.uk)

I used to have a hard time believing stats like this until I heard about the illiteracy crisis in American schools. Whole classes of highschool seniors that can't read... Some of them don't even know all of their letters. I really, really wish I was joking seeing as I have to live right next to them up North...