A mission statement for an organization is a list of aspirational goals. It brings purpose and summarizes values. Through that lens, perhaps we should look at our Declaration of Independence and Constitution as the mission statement for our country. Both documents lay out our country's values and goals in becoming a "more perfect union." Our guest today, our board member Jay McConville, wrote an essay for one of our recent online studies in which he contrasts our country's mission statement with that of communism via The Communist Manifesto. Jay is a military veteran, CEO and civic volunteer and we look forward to him sharing his research with our student panel.