Thought for the Week

I marvel at the commitment of many of our “Founding Fathers.” We’ve just celebrated Independence Day and our freedoms. Those freedoms came to us as a gift from those who have gone before us, purchased at great price. The costs for some of them were their blood, sweat, tears, homes, families, and fortunes. There are other costs I did not mention, perhaps did not even think of. Paragraph two of the Declaration of Independence begins with these words: “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, t...