OPINION: Remember to give thanks for the unlikely success of America’s revolution
As Americans gather together with family and friends for the Thanksgiving weekend, many will likely have partisan differences. That just seems to be a fact of life in present-day America. But there are things so fundamental to our shared experience that we can find bases for agreement. I believe we are all proud and inspired by the struggle of our forebearers to found a new country on the principles laid out 249 years ago in our Declaration of Independence. It is easy to overlook the fact that our ancestors were able to found a new nation, given the overwhelming odds against them.
We should first give thanks this year that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and Idaho Public Television aired a Ken Burns six episode, twelve hour series documenting the events leading to the Revolutionary War through the signing of the Treaty of Paris on September 3, 1783, which officially ended the war. It was a dangerous journey, fraught with numerous reversals that might well have caused the war to end in failure.
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