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    I  am reluctantly using the above title in light of actor James Brolin’s sarcastic remark on the radio last Tuesday: “happy 9/11 day.” Such comments as Brolin made is representative today of the civic cynicism of a political faction. Among these malcontents in their disbelief of sincerity of other people’s motives and actions is moveon.org who publicly attempted also last week to destroy the reputation of General Petraeus. It isn’t the first time those who are doing their duty to defend our lives and liberties are bullied to chose defeat. After April of 1775 with the ’shot heard around the world,’ it took the politicians in congress over a year to decide to declare our independence from the English King. A delay of over a year while our soldiers were fighting. Our General Washington suffered complaints in congress that makes todays Congressmen’s whining at General Petraeus sound like mild slaps. In January of 1776, General Washington reflected that his “situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.” As of then it is true now, none of us know of the predicament we are in from the haters of America embodied in terrorism. We honor the Declaration of Independence with a day, but the hard-fought politics of creating a constitution isn’t honor at all.

    I wanted to praise the Constitution today. I would have like if today were a national holiday. Instead I grateful the Seventeeth of September was not set a side as a holiday for the decay of public holidays would make the august document, our Constitution, a beer-drinking, firework sparkle event. The politicians would make it a Monday-holiday divorced from reality. I honor our basic law the founders gave us. I wish its renewal as a legal document instead of a socialogical tool to address societical problems. HAPPY SEVENTEETH OF SEPTEMBER!