[johniegrad]

There is a need to spread basic understanding of how America came to be and the whole history of the development of it’s founding principles, starting in 13th century Europe.

At least. I would even venture to go back to the Old Testament and the insistence on the care given to widows and orphans. Hell, if you want to, you can even trace it back to the creation narratives. The Jewish people had no qualms about attributing these rights to their proper Creator.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"At least. I would even venture to go back to the Old Testament and the insistence on the care given to widows and orphans."

One of the tennants of Memorial Day as stated in General Logan's order number 11 establishing the day was

"let us in this solemn presence renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us a sacred charge upon a nation's gratitude, the soldier's and sailor's widow and orphan."