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Message: [QUOTE="RockyMTblue2, post: 2250221, member: 250"] As we as a people prepare to barbecue some $900 million of beef tomorrow, get way to much sun, and maybe drink just a little more than prudent, I offer the opportunity to reflect on the most forceful words of our founding document, The Declaration of Independence. "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. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." Please take the time tomorrow to reflect on these words for a little while and the sacrifices of men and women for so long to give meaning to those words for you and me and everyone who genuinely wants to join us in freedom in this country and around the world. [/QUOTE]