And one more thing...patriotism isn't so much about what you know about what happened 239 years ago but rather about how you know how to apply those principles today.

I'm proud of how today's youth have been working to extend rights to people who have been heretofore denied the God-given rights that were expressed in the Declaration of Independence.

I'm a little ashamed that our generations were so reluctant to recognize that those rights applied to our fellow human beings.