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OPINION:<\/strong><\/p>\n

America may be having its 250th \u2014 also known as the Semiquincentennial, marking a significant birthday of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. And America may have just wrapped celebrations on the Fourth of July \u2014 also known in modern times as Independence Day, marking the adoption by the Continental Congress of the Declaration of Independence and the subsequent middle finger separation of the colonies from the British crown.<\/p>\n

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But almost half of Americans know not of what they celebrate.<\/p>\n

A survey from Cato Institute and Morning Consult found 46 percent of Americans don\u2019t understand the meaning behind the 250th \u2014 including 61 percent of Gen Zers; another 58 percent don\u2019t know the main purpose for the Constitution; and 57 percent don\u2019t understand why we declared independence from Great Britain. Seriously? Seriously.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s not just a sad commentary on the state of the education system. It\u2019s a somewhat frightening harbinger of the country\u2019s loss of freedoms.<\/p>\n

After all, if Americans aren\u2019t being taught the meaning of the nation\u2019s key patriotic holidays and celebrations, then they\u2019re certainly not being taught about the sacrifices of the founders, the genius of the framers and the ingredients that go into the making of American Exceptionalism, either.<\/p>\n

Fewer barbecues; more visits to military gravesites.<\/p>\n

Fewer hot dog eating contests; more reflections on those who died to save our liberties.<\/p>\n

Or how about this: less anti-capitalist, anti-West, anti-America teaching in schools; more truthful history and civics, with emphasis on the Constitution and the founding documents \u2014 so that the nation\u2019s coming leaders might actually understand what makes the United States tick, and why it\u2019s the greatest country in the world; so that the nation\u2019s coming leaders might actually stop voting for socialists and communists and Marxists for political office.<\/p>\n

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Seems reasonable.<\/p>\n

American Revolution great John Adams, second president of the United States, wrote to his wife, Abigail, of his expectations of the announced independence from Great Britain that \u201cit will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary festival,\u201d and that \u201cit ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty,\u201d and that \u201cit ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other from this time forward forever more.\u201d He meant it for July 2, when the Continental Congress approved the break from England. But he was overruled, and commemorations instead focus on the 4th, when the Congress actually adopted the Declaration of Independence.<\/p>\n

Either way, he meant it for a nation of citizens who fully understood the magnitude of what they were celebrating, what they were honoring, and to whom, ultimately, they owed honors and celebration \u2014 God.<\/p>\n

Without a basic understanding of why America was formed, and what makes America so great, the coming generations will not be able to secure America from enemies, neither foreign nor domestic. Why defend what\u2019s not seen as important or worth defending? Civics isn\u2019t just a trivial school course. It\u2019s the key way to keep our country great and free. It\u2019s a matter of national significance and security, as a means of keeping the country safe from internal crumbling leading to external conquest.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Cheryl Chumley can be reached at\u00a0cchumley@washingtontimes.com\u00a0or on Twitter, @ckchumley. Listen to her podcast \u201cBold and Blunt\u201d by\u00a0clicking HERE. And never miss her column; subscribe to her newsletter and podcast by\u00a0clicking HERE. Her latest book, \u201cGod-Given Or Bust: Defeating Marxism and Saving America With Biblical Truths,\u201d is available by\u00a0clicking HERE.<\/em><\/p>\n

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