As I listen to the National Anthem being sung at the beginning of the NASCAR race it always brings to mind pictures and lessons from my history classes in elementary school. It’s a reminder that our freedoms in this country came with a price, paid by human lives. I think it does our children a grave injustice that they are deprived of our nation's history. I wonder how many schools even teach about the Declaration of Independence or the roots of our government as they were established all those centuries ago. Today’s government leaders are twisting all those “truths to be self evident” into something quite the contrary!

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. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.