We’re have a big discussion about loyalty in the government.  It seems our present government defines loyalty as a personal committment, while most of the people I know define it as loyalty to the ideals of the declaration of independence, which stresses equality and freedom.  It’s clear that the same discussion is going on in the US.  

A copy of the Declaration of Independence has been pasted on my refrigerator for almost 3 years.  Every once in a while I read a piece of it to reassure me what a country the leaders of the country anticipated, to remember where we began.