View this email in your browser April 2022 The Importance of Heritage By: Sam Hendrickson, Editor The modern word "heritage" descends from Middle English, deriving out of the Anglo-French word "heritatre" meaning "to inherit". The word "heritatre" comes from the Latin word "heridatare" meaning "to leave an inheritance". Through the definitions of these two antiquated words, we find the double pronged meaning of heritage. Heritage is what we inherit, and what we leave behind. Our heritage is like matter, we came from it, it cannot be destroyed, and we will leave something behind to contribute to its flow. All heritage has good to inherit and pass on, as well as negative attributes to be corrected, sorted out, and rectified. Our duty is to uphold the good of our inheritance and leave behind our own good, both as people, and as a nation. “To secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity” reads the preamble