Do you know the name of the publication Patrick Henry wrote when he announced, "As for me, give me liberty or give me death?" The Henry writings were entitled "The Illusions of Hope."
Who is the only American who presently has a national holiday named in his honor? George Washington? Abraham Lincoln? Thomas Jefferson? None of the above. It is Martin Luther King.
Tom Brokaw wrote a fine book entitled The Greatest Generation. It was about the men who served during World War II. But was it really the greatest generation of Americans? What about the one that produced Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Henry, Madison, Hamilton and so many other founders of our nation?
These are some of the thoughts presented in a book I am reading entitled The Founding Fathers.
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Amen. Only to someone who's sense of history goes back 50 years or so was that the greatest generation. No disrepect to them, but even they will tell you no we were just doing our job.
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