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National Park Service Launches Website to Help You Plan Your Fourth of July Celebration

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With the Fourth of July holiday weekend not too far off, the National Park Service has launched a website that will help you plan your holiday celebration somewhere in the National Park System. And you'd expect the Park Service to have some pointers, as it preserves numerous areas that commemorate the birth of the United States and American Independence.

For instance, the ideals and freedoms that were won during the American Revolution and guaranteed in the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence are celebrated throughout the National Park System.

“The Fourth of July is an American tradition and a National Park tradition,” said Dan Wenk, acting Park Service director. “It is a time to come together with family and friends and celebrate the birth of this nation. I invite everyone to celebrate independence this year at a National Park site - many of the events and people that established and helped maintain our Independence as a nation are today commemorated in areas managed by the National Park Service. Come visit us and have a safe and happy Fourth of July.”

To help you find an event to your liking, the Park Service has launched this website. On it you'll find information on many special programs taking place on and around the Fourth of July at National Park Service sites throughout the nation.

From the site's homepage, click the "Special Events" button and you'll surf over to another page that lists Fourth of July events in the parks by state. For instance, at Colorado National Monument they'll commemorate Independence Day "by raising Old Glory 450 vertical feet from the canyon floor to the top of Independence Monument, the tallest free-standing rock formation in the park."

And at the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument "Pearl Harbor survivors from the Aloha Chapter of the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association will ring the bell of the USS Arizona battleship on the morning of Saturday, July 4."

Check out the site and have a great Fourth!

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