They came together -- despite political uncertainty, personal reservation and the very real fear of arrest and execution -- to declare that “these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States.”
This Indepence Day we remember that, in doing so, they not only committed themselves to an uncertain revolution. They rang a bell that would echo across the world and through generations to this moment where a 35-year-old grandson of sharecroppers considered his own place in that storied history. Read Full Article »
