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Remembrance of Veteran’s Days Past
Hearing the drums of world war for the first time since the Cuban Missile Crisis, this Veteran’s Day feels different.
As one contentious election cycle ends and another begins, some things are worth remembering this Veteran’s Day.
Those who despair of democracy, Republican and Democrat alike; who lament the sad state of a once-great nation or look in trepidation at the next decade, foretelling great danger if not an end to all things; take heart.
At the end of their lives, even the United States' founding fathers feared their great experiment in liberty had failed.
They lamented, in letters to friends and heartfelt public entreaties, that the Republic had faltered — torn asunder by the temporary passions of a fickle and feckless society bent on self-destruction and disharmony at every turn.
Lady Liberty, it seemed then even to stalwarts like Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, had died in her infancy.
They watched, helpless, as the great movement they founded, fought for, bled for, and endured great hardship for, floundered before their very eyes. The battles they fought against the monarchy of Great Britain and British loyalists at home long over, the levers and wheels of a new democratic government churning, the founding fathers took a hard look at the…