History remembers who wrote the Declaration of Independence. It forgot the immigrant printer who set it in type through the night — and the one stray letter that almost created a completely different country. This is the story of the forgotten hands that carried America’s promise to a continent: the printer, the riders in the mud, the women who held it all together, the soldiers with no statues. The words got the glory. But the carrying is the country.

Day 3 of our seven-part salute to America’s 250th birthday.

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