I just watched the first episodes of the HBO miniseries on John Adams. All I can say is, Wow! What a great production and depiction of life in the times. These two episodes presented the events leading to the Revolution in personal terms and showed that these people took great personal risks when they made decisions.

Of all the wars in our nation’s history, the Revolutionary War is the most interesting to me. I know, living in Mississippi everyone expects me to be a Civil War—excuse me, “War of Northern Aggression”—buff but I’m not. I grew up in the East and the war we discussed the most was the Revolutionary War. Plus, and I admit this recognizing where I live, I would have been on the side of the North in the Civil War. At heart, I’m a Federalist and I would have sided with keeping the Union together. Yes, I understand that at one level the Civil War was fought over state’s rights, but in reality it was a fight over slavery, an issue that should have been resolved when the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were written.