As so many strive to change our Constitution or impede the Freedom and Rights of others I am constantly reminded how so many have forgotten the sacrifices that were made to provide us that Freedom. To be sure just as many were not even educated on the subject.
I'm reminded of a paragraph from a letter written by John Adams to his wife, Abigail Adams in 1777. Battles were ensuing and Adams was engaged with the Continental Congress.
He said, "Is it not intolerable, that the opening Spring, which I should enjoy with my Wife and Children upon my little Farm, should pass away, and laugh at me, for labouring, Day after Day, and Month after Month, in a Conclave, Where neither Taste, nor Fancy, nor Reason, nor Passion, nor Appetite can be gratified?
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."
Sadly, it will likely not be those walking the Earth today that will have to deal errant mistakes, but our posterity who will have to put our nation back on course. If it is possible at that time.
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