It is our link to the past, our guidepost to the present, and our passport to the future. It is who we are, what we believe, and how we fit in. It is that fixed vantage point in a world of confusion that gives us a degree of security, stability, and moral direction. I don't need to tell you what would happen if we were to sever the cord that connects a man, a family, or a nation to who he is and what he has learned. Such a clean slated one might be transformed into a naive Pinocchio, or a tra la la Pollyanna, whose lack of experience would lead him or her into the grasp of one of a million Honest John's who offer frills and thrills which later come crashing down upon them in a Carnival of Deception and Slavery.
Memory is critical, both in individuals and in nations.
Yet, America has lost her memory. Her fixed vantage point. Her sense of the laws that protect liberty for all, not just liberty for the few. I speak of America's failure to recall the historical belief that liberty is only possible within the confines of fixed law. Today, the law floats, a particular which places our nation and our liberties at risk, every day, every hour, every minute.