Independence and Revolution

This is what I'm going to use to teach my students about the Declaration of Independence tomorrow. There's plenty of reasons to detest HBO's way of doing things if you're a mormon--but dang it all this miniseries is heaven on earth!! Long live David McCullough! Long live Youtube!! And of course, Long live these United States!!

It moves me to tears to think of the impossibility of the task and that these men were signing their lives away as they ratified this document. They could never have anticipated how the little colonies would have overcome the largest and most well-trained army in the world. But they did what was right, regardless of the foreseeable consequences. I think that's what constitutes true vision. We need to be guided by what we envision, and not just what we see.

Just watch it!