In Great Appreciation and Thanks for Your Service and Ultimate Sacrifice:

We, the American People, honor your volunteer service and sacrifice to our country.

We honor your commitment to the U.S. Constitution and to this country and your oath “to support and to defend it against all enemies foreign and domestic.”

We acknowledge and appreciate the sacrifices that you made on a daily basis, such as being separated from your families for long periods of time as your children grew.

We acknowledge your valor in the face of sometimes great fear and danger.

We recognize and appreciate the sacrifice of life that many have made to defend this great nation.

We further recognize and appreciate the sacrifice that even more of you have made with your limbs, vision and sanity.

This country has placed great faith and special trust in you and you, for the most part, have rallied and acquitted yourselves with honor.

We thank you for your service, your faith, and your sacrifices.

Our Commitment to You:

We, your elders and many of us veterans too, promise to never again send you into harm's way without constitutional justification in a just war.

We promise to control both the politicians and the government that work for us, in accordance with our Constitution, the way our Founding Fathers intended.

We promise to restore this country to the limited government that our Founding Fathers intended.

We promise that you will live in freedom and liberty without any government intrusion into your lives. This means, in part, that the government will no longer keep track of you or know where you are at all times. They will no longer monitor your telephone calls or emails. In fact, the only thing the government will know about you is your mail address (if you want them to) in order for them to deliver mail in accordance with Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution.

We promise to return “to coin money” in accordance with Article 1, Section 8 of the Constitution in order to maintain a constant value thereof and to eradicate fiat currency (paper money) that is not based 100% on a precious metal such as gold, silver, or platinum. This will prevent the true inflation that we experience now without our knowledge.

We promise to downsize government to the limited government our Founding Fathers specified.

We promise to limit our military to an active/reserve ratio of 1:10. This will allow a greater reserve force and a greater civil commitment should we ever be attacked and called on to defend ourselves. The smaller active duty component will allow enough military to quickly handle any immediate emergency before our reserve component can be activated.

We promise to end deficit spending.

We promise to balance the budget every year.

We promise to eliminate the national debt.

We promise to eliminate income tax.

We will ensure that the federal government severs financial ties with the various states thereby restoring, in part, state independence of action, including cessation from this voluntary union of states if requested by the state.

We intend to hold our elected officials, judges and justices fully and criminally accountable to the People for all of their actions while in office. That means their complete fidelity to the U.S. Constitution at all times in addition to the legal and the ethical standards of their portion of the government.

We will eliminate government regulations, rules and laws that inhibit free enterprise in any way.

We recognize that U.S. sovereignty is paramount and will prohibit extra-constitution organizations, such as the North American Union, from forming by the hands of government officials

We will ensure that this country withdraws from the United Nations.

We will form no “entangling foreign alliances.” Instead, we will trade with other nations as part of the free enterprise system.

We will get the government out of the business of murdering babies and other helpless individuals like Terri Schiavo.

Why Do We Make this Commitment to, You, Our Veterans?:

Because it is you who are this nation's future and you have the individual right to life of freedom and liberty unconstrained by unconstitutional government laws, rules and regulations.

Because it is, after all, our Constitution as-is, that is supposed to protect our rights and freedom.

Because restoring this country to a constitutional democracy will allow you a better environment in which to raise your family with better, less expensive, private healthcare, retirement, and personal investment opportunities.

Finally, we do this because it is "We, the People of these United States" that still run this country, not the politicians and the special interests that they work for. WE just need to get it – this country – back on track by correcting its deviation from our U.S. Constitution.

Noel Gibeson is president of the Mount Vernon Institute.