John,
I hope you are enjoying this great American holiday, today.
On this Independence Day, it is especially crucial we remember our history accurately to reflect on the sacrifices made by so many to birth our great nation.
Many who have been blessed by this great nation seek to take advantage of its freedoms to try to bring us down. We will not let that happen. We will honor those who've fallen for our Independence and those who've fallen to maintain it.
The story has been told, Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when someone shouted out, “Doctor, what have we got? A republic or a monarchy?”
To which Franklin responded, with a witty: “A republic, if you can keep it.”
It is up to us this day to KEEP IT.
Arizona First,
