The Glorious Cause (Video)

SUPPLEMENTAL VIDEO (click the image above to play): “If we love the freedoms that we enjoy… free speech, freedom of religion and, most important of all, freedom to think for ourselves… then surely we ought to know how it came to be. Who was responsible? What did they do? How much did they contribute? How much did they suffer? We honor, we celebrate those great men who wrote and voted for the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia, but none of what they said, none of what they committed themselves to — their lives, their fortunes, their sacred honors — none of those noble words about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, all men are created equal — none of that would have been worth any more than the paper it was written on had it not been for those who were fighting to make it happen. And we must remember them too. And they were in rags. They were in worse than rags. They had no winter clothing. The stories of our troops leaving bloody footprints in the snow because they were in bare feet, those stories are true.” -David McCullough, author of 1776