Official torch-lighting ceremony called off, rehearsal footage being aired instead; flames encroach on decommissioned tanks at Latrun after Memorial Day ceremony hastily evacuated ...

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It was the last letter that Jefferson ... Congress established Independence Day as a holiday in 1870, and in 1938 Congress reaffirmed it as a paid holiday for federal employees.