The gals at the cotillion are honoring the men and women in uniform today. Take a sneak peak at my dance card, along with everyone else's. (I'm meeting with a client, of all the unfair things, so my post will be up in a few hours.)

And a special thank you to the dreamy men who started it all: George Washington, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, John Hancock . . . and a certain French king who paid for it all (eventually with his life).

Men like Washington and Franklin had little to gain, and everything to lose in this grand experiment. They were trying to do something that had never been done before, and they persevered, suffering defeat after defeat.

And they were the midwives to an entirely new type of government—one that borrowed from the English parliamentary system but improved upon it, and stated the principles of equality for all in such bald language, it threatened to tear the country apart 100 years later—making it infinitely better, instead.

Thank you for all the risks. Thank you for the sacrifices. Thank you for your brilliance and your vision.

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