Thanks mdb for your good wishes from across the pond. I live in the Lexington/Concord Massachusetts area, which we proudly call the “Cradle of Liberty”. But in a broader sense the real cradle of liberty may have been the Magna Carta, signed at Runnymede in 1215, currently on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.

We have many monuments and remembrances’ around here of that great day when the “shot heard around the world” was fired. You might be interested to know that we have one monument with a brass plaque dedicated to an unknown British soldier who died nearby, in front of which we fly a small British flag. He was probably young and died far from home just doing his duty for King and Country.

Speaking of Liberty, I think it was John Kennedy who said that no man is totally free until all men everywhere are free. Many of us long for a president who again has that kind of vision.