"Keep It Close To Your Heart"
Sen. Robert Byrd (D-WV), author of the action that created Constitution Day, is scheduled to give a speech today honoring the importance of the document on the Senate floor today. Byrd is expected to say the Constitution’s words “are as critically important to every American as instructions on how to operate a lifeboat are to the passengers of a storm tossed ship.”
Byrd , who famously carries around a copy of the document in his pocket, hopes that today, American’s “will take just a few minutes, read, and to think about our remarkable Constitution. Keep it close to your heart, as I do.”
(NORA MCALVANAH)