Yesterday, November 11, 2021, we celebrated Veterans’ Day. It’s the national holiday where we honor the men and women who served in our Armed Forces, swearing an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic. While it is important to honor all Veterans for our defense and security, it’s also important to understand the connection between Veterans and another central principle of our Nation—our Independence.
On July 4th each year, we celebrate Independence Day because that ragtag group of citizen-soldiers-patriots, our first Veterans, challenged the world’s most powerful military. Five years later 19 October 1781, these citizen-soldiers-patriots (Veterans) finally secured our liberty at the Battle of Yorktown, VA and planted a standard of freedom to which the entire world has aspired, and a new nation was formed called the United States of America.
