"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free." - President Ronald Reagan
Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon arrived in what we call Florida on this day in 1512. Eventually, the US purchased the territory from Spain in 1819. It became a state in 1845.
