It is Wednesday, July 2nd, 2025.

This is the warning.

249 years ago today, the world changed forever.

The Lee Resolution was passed in the Continental Congress,

and it declared that the United States of America should be independent.

It was this day that John Adams thought would be the one that was celebrated in the United

States forevermore.

He was off by two days.

It was the fourth on the day when the Declaration of Independence was signed that the American people recall and celebrate.

And so today, we well and truly enter into the 250th anniversary of the Republic, the United States of America.

At the moment, the smoke cleared enough to see the

white flags flying over the British lines at Yorktown, the Marquis de Lafayette, the young Frenchman

in command of American troops there, a man who would name his son, George Washington Lafayette, knew the war

had been won. The revolution was over, and he cried out, humanity has its victory, liberty

has its country. And so the story of America over those 250 years of time is uneven.

But we get confused sometimes when we ponder an expanse of time beyond a single human lifetime.

We lose how close events that exist outside of our space are to our

lifetimes. It's a remarkable fact that the 10th president of the United States, John Tyler,

born in 1791, has a living grandson.

He's in his 90s, but his grandfather served in the Confederate Congress after being elected 10th president, born while Washington was in his first term.

Incredible.

And it is incredible to consider the words of a Martin Luther King when he shared his dream.

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