Liberty and unity: What America’s 250th anniversary asks of us today
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America approaches its 250th birthday in 2026 as Virginia leaders call for civic renewal and reconnection with founding ideals of liberty and equality.
Carly Fiorina is a former Hewlett-Packard CEO and current National Honorary Chair of VA250, Virginia’s official semiquincentennial commission and board chair of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. She is also a former candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination.
Throughout our history, America has persistently worked toward these aspirational ideals, often imperfectly, but always purposefully. The freedoms promised in 1776 were not immediately or universally granted; generations of Americans - enslaved people, women and others denied their full rights - would wait decades to taste freedom, and the fight for true equality has continued into our own century.
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