Shadows of A Life: The Invisible Conquest Volume 5 takes a turn toward a vicious truth. A truth we don't want to acknowledge. Americans have been so caught up in how much they get, they have forgotten what it took to get it. It only takes one to study the thoughts of those men who began this country to understand their warnings. They have come to pass in today's America. Individual rights are slowing slipping away. American citizens' liberties are being striped, spread out to accommodate those who didn't earn their place in America. Americans are being suckered into the tune of the "Cause" without paying much attention to the affects. These shadows are an impression left forever to our young. Shadows has weakened what used to be strong. Former President George Washington said in his first inaugural speech in 1789, "The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on a experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people." Powerful words that the American Citizen seems to have forgotten. We have been "entrusted" with one of the greatest countries in the world, and we are failing.