Nostalgia near our nation’s capital.

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Throngs converged on the National Mall for this year’s semiquincentennial extravaganza on July 4. But my family and I remained just outside the nation’s capital in the suburb where I was raised, where I raised my children, and where I have spent more than half of my life: Chevy Chase, Maryland.

Charles Lane is a nonresident senior fellow at The American Enterprise Institute.