- The Continental Congress resolved to break its ties with Great Britain on July 2, 1776.
- Two days later the Declaration of Independence is approved.
- Our freedom and our independence did not come without a cost, then or now
- Our greatest treasure is freedom
- The corollary of freedom is individual responsibility.
- Our women and men in uniform who serve for our freedom, especially those who are forward deployed
- Their spouses, children, parents, siblings, extended family and friends who count the days
- Naturalized citizens like my friend Vincent Agor, featured in the OC Register. Mr. Agor said, “When I became a citizen, in that moment, it’s a free choice to see that the name American is mine,” http://t.co/lsVr5fd
- Veterans who are home and at home in heaven
“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.”