The Founders of our Country
The founders of our country risked all that they had worked for to be free from tyranny and oppression without representation. The founders pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.  As they became revolutionaries, they in effect signed their own death warrants. Their end was sure if they were captured or the war lost. Historians will tell you that statistically, and strategically, the colonists should not have even come close to winning the Revolutionary War.  However, the colonists won the war despite all the challenges they faced.

Yet we seem to forget the price they paid, and the prize they sought, when they made their pledge.  Many of the founders did not survive the war due to sickness and captured, yet they risked everything that they had, not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of their children and posterity.  They sacrificed to better the future of their country, regardless of the cost to themselves. 

Are we sacrificing ourselves for the future of our country?  Or are we sacrificing the future of our country for ourselves?  Are the decisions we are making today in our government going to have a negative impact on our children's future?  Will our children pay for our mistakes?  Perhaps the decisions being made congress now should be considered in light of how they will effect our children instead of how they will 'help' our current problems or crisis.

The Civil War
Avoiding the issue that had divided the Continental Congress was the causes of the greatest conflict our country has ever known.  The Continental Congress could not come to an agreement on the proper way to deal with slavery and the trafficking of Africans.  They could not outlaw slavery and keep the southern states in the new union they were trying to form.  They decided to put the issue off, allowing their children to deal with the most explosive issue our country would ever face. 

While the founding fathers knew of the moral implications of slavery, they could not come to a decision that would settle the argument.  Eventually, this issue would become one of the major causes of the American Civil War, the cause of death for over 500,000 men and boys from different parts of the nation.  They chose sides according to what they thought was right, not because things were promised in exchange for their support.  Many men died for what they believed was right, even if their family did not believe the same way that they did. 

Because the founding father did not deal with the issue when they could have, their grandchildren had to fight to decide what should be done.  Are we putting off important decisions in our country that will cause future generations to die in deciding what we should have done?  That child who will be aborted by a doctor forced to perform the abortion, even though he his moral beliefs opposed it, could be your grandchild or great grandchild.  The death toll of abortions performed in our country from 2006-2007 was 1,206,200!

We remember the Civil War as the greatest cost of human life for a war fought inside the US, but the toll of abortions since Roe V. Wade is estimated at 49,551,703 .  You cannot tell me that the decisions we make do not effect our children.  It's time we stopped what has killed more than all of our wars combined.