July and holidays

Today is the fourth of july, and that means a lot of different things to different people. I remember the fourth of july as a means to tell when summer was about half over, so I knew I had to savor the last bit of it before school. Since my days of summer vacations I've joined the military though. I feel as though I'm supposed to feel self righteous..or vengeful on today. Really it just serves as a reminder to why I really don't like holidays. I find that I've always enjoyed the time spent with my family having fun on the 4th, rather than the times that I was learning about the importance of it. I find I generally dislike holidays though. There's no deep meaning to why I do, I think it's just that people tend to get lazy and indignant on holidays. I had to work today, 4 hours, it wasn't terrible, or for that matter different from any other day. Although I got paid $12 an hours instead of $8 for working on a holiday. But all my co workers were complaining how it was against their american rights to work on a holiday. I believe there's a fine line between celebrating one's freedom, and being lazy