The author, John Larkin, is a "somewhat retired" Patriotic American from the Minneapolis/St Paul area of Minnesota. He is the Founding Director of The 56 Club - an organization founded in the spirit of the fifty-six very courageous signers of the Declaration of Independence. The 56 Club has a mission of bringing Americans together in hopes to preserve longstanding American values and principles; and to help preserve them for generations yet to come. "I have my two children and their spouses, very soon-to-be two grandchildren; and I would hope and pray that they grow up in an even better Americ...