[Diana in Wisconsin]

[Joe 6-pack]

The final scene of the HBO "John Adams," mini-series, cites a letter from Adams to his wife, and concludes:

"Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it."