We at Yorktown University would like to wish you and yours a safe and happy 4th of July celebration. To celebrate, we'd like to draw your attention to a guest-column on The Denver Post, by Dr. Jason Ross, who teaches "Roots of American Order" at Yorktown University:

Amid the July Fourth fireworks, cookouts, fairs and parades, the history behind Independence Day, the sacrifices made by our Founding Fathers and our responsibilities as modern American citizens often get lost in the shuffle.

It's not lost, however, on America's next generation.

The Bill of Rights Institute recently analyzed the thinking of 3,000 high school students nationwide — future taxpayers, parents, business owners, community activists and leaders — on the civic virtues they value, who their historical heroes are, and which of our founding documents inspire them the most.

The survey was based on some of the 50,000 essays submitted in the "Being an American" Essay Contest for the 2009-10 school year.

So, to what civic virtues do teens aspire?

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