Celebrating 250 years of American unity.
The advent of AD 2025 promises continuing global and domestic conflicts but a hope for peace. Partisan politics and media infighting persist, while wars roil Ukraine and the Middle East. New Year’s 2025 celebrations augur the second inauguration of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States. It would be well for all Americans to seek unity and compromise in the new annum, virtues that have enabled the nation to endure for 250 years.
A Legacy of Independence
The founders of the American effort to “form a more perfect Union” signed their names to a Constitution employing that phrase in its 1776 preamble, but the fledgling colonial nation was well on its way to independence in 1775. The battles of Lexington and Concord echoed shots heard around the world that April. In May, Ethan…
