Declaration of Independence

A few years back, seems like yesterday, we went to Washington, D. C. and in the rotunda we were able to see the original Declaration of Independence. It was chilling to see the document and signatures that started us on our road to freedom, on the road to being America, land of the free, home of the brave.

You have a chance to sign this beautiful document, online, in celebration of its 225th anniversay. I have and printed it out. I am feeling extremely patriotic. Red, white and blue.

Take a look, sign your name, it is a stirring gesture.

Declaration of Independence.

IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.....