235 and one day!

Tuesday-July 5, 2011

235 and one day!

Today, our country is 235 years and one day old! Why is this significant? Why even bring it up?

For some, today was just another day in 2011. Or it was just another day in which we went back to work after a long holiday weekend. For others, the day was consumed by driving back home from the summer visits during the July fourth holiday.

Today, I realized something that was very personal. I thought about liberty, freedom and Independence in a new light. I thought about how the day after the Declaration of Independence was introduced how it must have changed the perspective and the lives of those who stood by the adoption and passing of the document, not to mention a nation that was in revolt.

For me, today, when I thought about the historical aspects of the July fourth holiday I got some sort of renewed spirit. I wanted to know more of what our forefathers wanted us to do to invigorate, restore and inspire people to want more of what the Declaration of Independence was meant to be and what is was meant to give us.

Today, I realized that we must remind people of what the document was and the history behind the document. A day after our July fourth holiday the leaders in the Senate and our leader in the White House called for a tax hike on the rich, or those who make more than $250,000 a year to pay for the abuses that our government has inflicted upon us. Our Independence was established over a principle: no taxation without representation. You would have thought that some Senator or some Congressman would have pointed that out; or at least reminded a few of. Today, if you lose your job and you are above fifty years old, chances are you will never find a replacement of that job. The sick thing is that in 2007 it took a fifty year old five months, on average, to find a replacement and it usually paid more. This is the result of the loss of liberty, freedom and independence.

We must renew a spirit that has been long lost even in the most conservative of circles. We must dedicate ourselves to living the words of the Declaration and to inspire others to do the same. What most forget is that the Declaration of Independence started a movement which culminated with the most indelible words ever written: “When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.”

Two months earlier, John Adams drafted the preamble that would explain the purpose of the resolution to write the Declaration of Independence. He wrote then: “This day the Congress has passed the most important resolution, that ever was taken in America.” John Adams, May 15, 1776.

For some, it is an easy task to live the words of independence and see the benefits that independence gives. For others it becomes an out dated obsolete document which came to light for a brief moment in another century.

This July fourth holiday marked a personal achievement for me. I have been writing and speaking about liberty, freedom and independence for two years now in a public platform. I have been doing it my way and in my time. I have been learning what I wanted and at a pace that suited me. I have made progress and I believe that my efforts to practice what I preach are now being listened to.

I believe that the spirit I am seeking is one that will help me move forward at a greater pace in the remaining portion of this year.

My focus now will be to renew what the lady of liberty is all about. My focus will be to research more of what the forefathers said and what their desires were. I am beginning to think that our forefathers left us a will. In this case their will spells out what they wanted us to do with their riches. The riches I speak of are the gifts they to us in the form of liberty, freedom and independence. There will was designed to guarantee the rights and privileges under law, they bequeathed to us their fortune of thought and wisdom and in that will they told us how to protect it. They also said that if we didn’t protect it we would lose the riches that were bequeathed to all of us.

When I wrote, I viewed today in a different way I gave thought to many of the words and the actions displayed by the men of revolution and the men that stood tall the day after there words were announced to the world.

Gregory C. Dildilian
Founder and Executive Director
Pinecone Conservatives

A footnote: It didn’t take 235 years and one day to write the Declaration, but I fear it will take less time before we are told to forget about it. In the remaining portion of this year I will remind all not to forget.