Quote Originally Posted by skauwt View Post
folk have to remember though that in this day and age people are worrying soo much about there future and thats including kids now... that some things that happend umpteen generations ago are somewhat irrelevant to modern life im not saying we all forget them but at the end of the day that declaration makes no impact on most current modern life especially in this country

if you told those men who singed that declaration that the country was going to be a union with 3 other countries 1 being the whole point of the declaration in the first place and that union was aslo partly ruled by another 27 countries do you think they'd have fought so hard
i think they`d have all just gone home and had a stiff drink
I'm afraid I have to disagree, but I'll let Edmund Burke "say" my response to your first paragraph:

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

T.