by Patrick J.. McShay “Sad will be the day when the American people forget their traditions and their history, and so longer remember that the country they love, the institutions they cherish, and the freedom they hope to preserve, were born from the throes of armed resistance to tyranny, and nursed in the rugged arms of fearless men.” — Roger Sherman, A Founding Father of the United States “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing…