Letters: Enough as they are

As we approach our nation’s 250th birthday, it’s worth reviewing the evolution of our revolution. Let’s review the role of women patriots in America’s first century. I’ll start with six.

The 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence knowingly put their lives at risk. Benjamin Franklin put it best when he said, “We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall hang separately.” 

That also applied to Mary Katherine Goddard, the woman whose name appears on original copies of our preeminent founding document. She was the Baltimore printer hired by the fledgling American government to print original copies of the signed Declaration and distribute those copies to each of the colonial states.