The meaning of many holidays can be elusive. On Memorial Day, are we contemplating our
fallen heroes, or grilling burgers? How
many shopping days ‘til Christmas? Labor
Day? Isn’t that the last weekend at the
beach?
The Fourth of July has just passed. Hopefully, we paused at least for a few
moments to meditate on what happened in Philadelphia in 1776.
I’ve seen the actual Declaration twice in my life. The first time was when my mom took me to
D.C. as a young child. Later, I took the
kids to the National Archives, where we waited in a long line to be rewarded
with a few second gaze at the very faded ink that was sequestered behind thick
glass.
History is such a thrill.
It’s a dynamic discipline that breathes.
This past week, a scholar from Princeton, New Jersey claims that a
punctuation mark – a period – does not appear on the original parchment, but was
included in the official transcript of the Declaration authorized by the
National Archives. The omission of the
period casts a different slant on the sentence that begins with the iconic
phrase, We hold these truths to be self-evident.
Fifty-six men signed the document. Here are their concluding words to King
George III.
And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm
reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each
other our Lives, Our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.
We owe a debt that can never be repaid.
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