True Heroes of America

Author’s Note: This letter is to the men who created America and gave us our freedom. Although they did a great job, I think that they could have done a little bit better.

Dear Founding Fathers,

I cannot thank you enough for everything that you have done. You’ve helped everybody that has lived in the United States since you inscribed the Bill of Rights, which gave people the freedom of speech, religion, and more. Although I can’t thank you enough, there is something that I would tell you if I were alive during your time. It would have something to do with all men being created equally.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” In this quote, taken from the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers stated that all men are created equal. I think that you guys should have said, everyone is created equal for a few reasons. First of all, women could have taken this the wrong way and thought that they were less important than men. Except, everybody is created equally including men and women. Another reason why I think this should have been stated differently was because if you would have said everyone, then everyone including women might have been able to vote before 1920. Finally, some women were even brighter than other men yet men were considered more important than women. Some of the women were smarter because they invented things ,or just had more knowledge about things because it got passed down by family members. Clearly, you guys should have taken women into consideration and wrote that everybody was created equally.

I might be a man writing for women but everybody was created equally. The Founding Fathers did a superb job on creating our country and obtaining our freedom. You might have made a few mistakes here and there but overall, I can’t thank you enough!

Sincerely,

Kevin Dethloff