Yesterday I decided that I am in the best section of American Heritage at BYU! For the entire two-hour class we watched the HBO film John Adams with Paul Giamtti, which illustrates the beginnings of the American call for independence and the core role that John Adams played.
I watched part one of this movie-series on the plane ride back from Hawaii back in June, and though I enjoyed watching it, I never thought I would have the chance to finish it. The film, and the book it was based on, allows us to experience, in a fraction of the sense, how it must have felt to experiance these essential moments in history.
Courage in the face of an outcome uncertain, an enemy advancing, and with a light in the future which called for nothing less.
The essential collaboration of minds and moments which allow me to live and look back in adoration to the men who made this country a reality. I enjoy learning a more detailed history of the Founding Fathers like John Adams, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and my favorite, Benjamin Franklin so I can understand them as people. Real people with personalities and faults, but also men who exemplified something more by creating a country together, for the comman man.
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