Remember What Independence Day Is About

Remember What Independence Day Is About - Derek Hunter 

"It was 248 years ago today that the world found out that the Continental Congress in Philadelphia was really up. 

• Rather than trying to reconcile with England, they decided to break, completely. 
• More than that, these 56 men from all 13 colonies decided to lay out for all the world, and history, to see why it was they chose this path. 

The idea had been decided earlier, the language labored over, and the printer finally got the finished product to make copies so the colonists could be told what their leaders ultimately decided. 

• It was the debut of the Declaration of Independence.

We revere this document today, but at the time there was nothing close to a guarantee that it would be remembered as anything other than a blip in history; a warning about the dangers of lofty goals in the face of tyranny.

• If we had lost, the signatories would have been hunted down and executed...