Freedom

For all her faults this United States of America is a great country. I realize I take this for granted. Today we celebrate our DECLARATION of Independence. But the reality was there was much work to be done.

There was a bloody fight for that independence.

There still is.

Thank you to the servicemen and women who died to give me freedom of religion, freedom of speech, the right to representation "by the people, of the people, for the people". Thank you to those in far away countries serving today.

And there was much work to be done to set up a government. For a great read on the story of the constitutional convention try Miracle at Philadelphia by Catherine Drinker Bowen.

I love what Declaration signer and delegate to the convention Dr. Benjamin Rush wrote of the ratification of this document:

"Tis done; we have become a nation."

With all our faults, we have indeed.