Good News Declaration!

I can't remember the last time I read the Declaration of Independence, all of it from start to finish.  So I thought this would be a good day to remedy that.

Once past the soaring rhetoric of "All men are created equal" and have unalienable rights to "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness," the signers go on to list at length their grievances.  And there are many.  And they are specific.  And it is clear that these guys were really pissed off, so angry that they were willing to stake their lives on overthrowing their oppressor.

They direct their ire directly at King George.  He's the guy they're talking to.  For example:  He has been "waging war against us - He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people - He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages."

And on they go . . . Good News for them!  Bad news for George!

Finally, they "pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

We had a good start.  The unanswered question is will we live up to the example they set?