Tomorrow is America’s 250th Birthday as an independent nation.  Your narrator for Audibly Speaking rings in the birthday in suitable vocal style with an audio narration of that fateful document. The Declaration of July 4, 1776 was not just a statement of independence but a declaration of ideals that has changed the world.  Will we, the generation that is the heir of the founding fathers, allow its ringing words to continue shaping the world, or will the American people themselves today be the authors of its destruction? For God’s sake, and for their own sake, the American people must decide.  This narration is delivered in the style of the great Orson Welles.

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On July 4, 2026, Americans will celebrate…what?  Obviously they will celebrate what they intend to celebrate.  That means American’s “Independence Day.” But what does that mean? According to the Cato Institute’s poll released today, 46% of Americans are clueless as to what it means.  The reason is clear: their ignorance of history.  This should not be surprising since Americans popularize “history” as something to be considered over and done with.  But that popular stance, and shield for ignorance, won’t work when it comes to the vital work of learning from the past to create a viable future.  For all of Americans’ pride in being American, one thing they cannot boast of is the knowledge of history without which they, and our future, are doomed.  Americans must stop relying on hunches, and learn their history, if they want the founding fathers whom they are so proud of to be more than footnotes in the national dustbin of the future.

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