Independence day is this weekend! Most of us know that Independence Day celebrates the day America declared our independence from England in 1776.
But what President Reagan knew is that the independence we won on battlefields like Lexington and Concord, Trenton and Brandywine, would need to be defended for as long as our flag flies.
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction,” he said, long before he became president. “We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
