On this Memorial Day Weekend - thankful for those who gave the last measure to maintain this…

■ G. K. Chesterton wrote: America is the only nation in the world that is founded on a creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and

even theological lucidity in the Declaration of Independence; perhaps the only piece of practical politics that is also theoretical poli-

tics and also great literature. It enunciates that all men are equal in their claim to justice, that governments exist to give them that justice, and

that their authority is for that reason just. It certainly does condemn anarchism, and it does also by inference condemn atheism, since it clearly

names the Creator as the ultimate authority from whom these equal rights are derived. (“WHAT IS AMERICA?”

WHAT I SAW IN AMERICA)