July 4th: A Moment for Humility
Things Could Have Turned Out Differently.
This is not a story of inevitability. It’s a story of men who made decisions with no guarantee of success, no certainty of outcome. —David McCullough, 1776
Nearly 250 years ago, representatives of thirteen fractious colonies signed a bold declaration that marked the birth of a new nation. With the stroke of a pen, they launched what George Washington and…
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