The most important of his edits was small but resounding. He crossed out, using the heavy backslashes that he often employed, the last three words of Jefferson’s phrase “We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable” and changed them to the words now enshrined in history: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.”
A short self-congratulatory note on a small achievement unlocked: I've now run a 10K in 9 different countries (Greece, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Luxembourg, France, Germany, Turkey and Denmark). Now I need a new destination...
