🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 What an incredible Fourth of July! It is a blessing to have spent this day in celebration of America's birthday with such great friends. I had some good laughs asking folks if they could recite the first sentence of the Declaration of Independence! Shout out to my friend Lauren for getting it first and also sharing a cool fact about the first sentence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident." Thomas Jefferson apparently first drafted it as “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable.” Ben Franklin then crossed out these three words, "sacred and undeniable," replacing them with "self-evident," thus bringing about a centuries-old debate amongst historians on which was more correct, rights as God-given and divine, versus laws of empirical science. Pretty interesting stuff. Happy #4thofjuly ! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
