12:07 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2017

Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com Immigrants and Americans march Thursday in Englewood in solidarity to protest the immigration policies of President Donald Trump. Immigrants and Americans marched in solidarity to protest the immigration policy of President Donald Trump Thursday morning in Englewood. They marched from the Englewood World War Memorial along Palisade Ave to the Municipal Building. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com(Photo: ~File photo)

We sought independence.

We fought wars, our gallant perishing ... suffering.

We carved a nation, creating in the process a remarkable and unique constitution. We preserved that nation despite internal strife and entanglement in two world wars.

These masterful accomplishments, their labors, centuries of staggering efforts and sacrifice ... to what end?

We now operate under a yoke of stupidity. That prized achievement, our treasured tri-parte balanced government so delicately created ... we now bear witness to the mantles of its ingenuity being shredded before our eyes, all by frivolous motivation and a lack of cohesive caring.

We all bear silent witness to the resources of an exalted nation, a treasured people with Spacious Skies being laid waste by internal turmoil, frivolous debate and inane strife, this wonderful creation, our wonderful nation, our rule of law, our gift of freedom being rendered asunder before our collective eyes.

Now is a new normal, inane nonsense being precipitated by perverted values emphasizing petty differences, blocking vision and forever engaged in political correctness while shamefully discarding the great bonds of kinship and common goals so clearly afforded us by our progenitors.

Have clarion bells from the past become so muted as to no longer provoke the caring and the vigilant to stir? Are we surrendering not to a foreign power by war, but destroying our nations fabric by surrendering to disharmony discord and apathy? Is this where it ends with all of us entangled in fruitless emotion?

Do we not know that freedom, once won, is never static, that indigenous to our precious Liberty is always the need to constantly fight for its preservation?

Can we not peel back our apathies to inspire and galvanize others to put our countrys real interests ahead of petty aggrandizement and ideology. We need not be obliged to stand idly by and mute watching cherished ways evaporate. The gift must be preserved.

Politics be damned. A bird, our dynamic Eagle, needs both a right and left wing to fly and again soar. We are all family. Collectively we must care, we must act robustly before we lose the unrivaled rarity of a precious endowment bestowed upon us .... our heritage, our incredibly unique and inspirationally created nation ... the land of the free, the home of the brave. We cannot just watch the gasps and let her go.

Please, America!

Robert G. Fogelson

MONTVILLE

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LETTER: Liberty under assault from Washington - Daily Record