This seems like a good time to read The Declaration of Independence from our National Archives. When I read it this time, it felt different than studying it for a high school or college class assignment. As I said aloud each of the signer's names, a feeling waved through me. The signers inked their names on the document despite a near certainty there would follow a reckoning.
And it did. The outcome of the ensuing seven years of war was an ending and a beginning. The signers are all long ago gone. So are all the people who stepped up for it, those who didn't, and gone are the oppressors. But the Declaration is still right here with us, accessible, alive as we are. And that gives me chills.
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