[nathanbedford]

Every year my wife asks, "are you going to post your vanity about the Declaration of Independence again this year?" Her question is really rhetorical, she knows I intend to post it because it has become a tradition in the family much like whether your family opens your Christmas presents on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day. A family tradition for us such as what your family usually has for Christmas dinner, turkey or ham? Do you display the flag on Memorial Day?

For us, living as we do here in Germany, it is our way of holding fast to our America. So every year we keep the tradition and then await the reactions of FReepers which have been consistently gratifying and even heartwarming.

So the tradition goes on into its seventh [now 10th year] year even as the imperative to return to and cling to the principles of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution becomes more urgent as our country founders in the midst of a terrible "fundamental transformation"

[wastoute]

God Bless you.

[Rummyfan]

BTTT!

[Islander7]

Thank you!

[CitizenUSA]

Bears repeating:

"This means that who you are, what rights you have, come directly from God and not from the government. In fact, the government is there to serve you, as a child of God, not the other way around, and when the government takes away your rights, the government is not legitimate, and you can change it."

Thank you, nathanbedford!

[samtheman]

I wonder if the French experienced Schadenfreude at the British defeat in the Colonies.

[Laslo Fripp]

I always enjoy your responses on the forum.

Thank you for re-posting this.

[Guenevere]

This is lovely....you did well.

I trust your son still has a reverence and appreciation for America.

[outofsalt]

Good stuff but, I thought you were a dead racist who’s temporarily buried in Tennessee.

[bert]

tell your wife that we not only thank you for the effort but look forward to reading it again next year

[Rebelbase]

“So the tradition goes on into its seventh [now 10th year] year”

WE ARE GETTING OLD! AGGHHH!

[BlueDragon]

For your son, if he's never heard this one, another small gift from America,

Little Martha Duane Allman, from the album Eat a Peach

though not nearly so important as what you had highlighted.

Those ideas did not arise from a vacuum (every other form of government, among me, had been tried, and found wanting) and those who signed knew they signed what could become their own death warrant.

[Alas Babylon!]

Love it!

But, as our own government sinks further into being all about its own power, when do we get to say when it is no longer legitimate? When will THAT day come?

You can say that in the Declaration of Independence, the Founders were actually warning us about THIS day, and not just declaring independence from Britain.

[Dacula]

Thank you! I always appreciate your posts.

[SharpRightTurn]

Great job, NB. Thanks for sharing.