The Commonwealth Thesis & The Dawn of Shiloh A Letter to the People of the United States Across the country, a question whispers through the minds of millions— “ What happened to the nation we once knew ?” We feel it in our schools, our communities, our economy, our culture. We sense an unraveling: of institutions, of families, of meaning, of hope. But we also sense something else rising—a quiet conviction that America is not finished. That she is simply waiting for her peopl