11/11/2015
To my Dad and all of the men and women who have fought to protect our freedom, I salute you!
"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficient Creator hath graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live as slaves."
— Declaration of Taking Up Arms, by Thomas Jefferson and John Dickinson, July 6, 1775