In a polarized US, how to define a patriot increasingly depends on who's being asked

(AP) -- Millions of Americans will attend parades, fireworks and other Independence Day events on Tuesday, celebrating the courage of the nation's 18th-century patriots who fought for independence from Great Britain and what they considered an unjust government. Those events also will honor the military and those who sacrificed in other conflicts that helped preserve the nation's freedom over its 247-year history. Human exposure to wildfires has more than doubled in two decades – read