Celebration events were everywhere across the country. From the massive OnSail 2000 parade of tall ships in the New York Harbor to the small fireworks displays in nearly every community the people of the United States were celebrating their freedom. However, the Declaration of Independence alone did not win that freedom. Freedom came only at the cost of many lives during the War of Independence followed by the War of 1812. Since that time many more wars, skirmishes, and police actions have been necessary to maintain our freedom.
Today there is a different kind of challenge to the freedom of the citizens of the United States.
It is a moral decay that is rotting away at those precious freedoms. This moral decay has become pervasive infecting every area of government including the President, the Supreme Court, and the Congress. Our state governments also appear to be infected with this same moral decay. Even in our local communities there appears to be a whatever they want to do is okay attitude about immorality that is so very rampant. The winning of freedom is only the beginning.