To the Editor:

How could anything 224 years old be continually relevant? Consider that in 1787, yearnings forged from the experience of suffering brought our forefathers to establish a new way of government that ensured the rights of the individual and the right way for the many.

Pages of promise. Pledges of emancipation. Declarations of freedom and equality.

A collective reasoning written from the point of a pen dipped in a reservoir of blood and tears and stamina, The United States Constitution was to become the rock on which “We the people” would stand.

Like love, freedom ignored is freedom lost.

Do you love your freedom? Do you know your rights?”

My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing...”Are you singing?

When we finally take the time to embrace it, The Constitution ensures our joy.

It was written for our liberation. Constitution Week is Sept. 17-23. Take the time to review it...read it...

We are not a country of ‘window shoppers,’ we are rebels in the face of tyranny, we are the home of the brave and the land of the free! Teach it to yourself, your children...your politicians. This is a time to stand up and remember...”We the people”... are America!

You are our concern.

We invite you.

We are your mothers and sisters.

We are The Daughters of The American Revolution.

Shirley Gardner

Colton