Though our family has been a part of her Beauty and Strength for only about 150 years, I am as proud of her as when she became the great Nation she is!
This is my America.
From every other nation imaginable, she has Welcomed, with open arms, the poor and artistic, the mighty and the humble. They came to fulfill a Dream they could fulfill NO WHERE ELSE ON EARTH!
This is my America.
All races, creeds and idiologies have been accepted and implemented here ‑ as long as they did not try to tie, or destroy, the Hands of Freedom on these shores.
This is my America.
Here, every Hope imagined is attainable if we desire to do the work and protect the Freedom that has given her people the right to pursue the most honorable of ambitions!
This is my America.
No other land has ever desired to protect so dearly the rights of other lands from tyranny, as well as being able to protect her own borders. No other government on the face of the earth has ever lost so many of her own, to protect the rights of others that she does not even know!
This is my America.
In this "one Nation, under God, and indivisible", I have had the right to pursue the highest education I desire to achieve, and I have been taught Respect, Love, Honour, Humility and have the even greater sense of common sense (GOD's Wisdom) to guide me in the darkest hours.
This is my America.
I know that our America has seasons, not just in nature, but in all things. And I know that her flu season begins in the the late fall, usually around November, and that that same flu season ends usually around the end of February. I know that I do not need hand sanitizers, germicide bombs, face masks or gloves, nor do I need to hide in the back of my closet, under my bed or under a table: because this earthly body, "fearfully and wondrously made", knows how to make its own antibodies to ward off natural illnesses of all kinds. Likewise, it is so strong, if we believe in The Higher Principle, NO THING CAN HURT US IN ANY WAY, UNLESS IT IS MEANT TO BE! And I know that people also die during those times ‑most likely because it was their time to go back Home. And I am vigilant enough in desiring the freedom to be all I can be on these shores, that I guard, at all hours, against home grown tyranny from within.
This is my America.
I do not expect our government to provide to us all that each of our lives need. We came here because we wanted MORE than the little that the Socialist, Leftist, Marxist, Nazi or Communist governments provide! FREEDOM GIVES ME THE RIGHT AND THE POWER TO BECOME ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING I CAN POSSIBLY BE! I DO NOT HAVE TO LOOK "UP" AT THE SOLES OF THE BOOTS OF THOSE WHO WANT TO TRAMPLE ME INTO THE GROUND! TO MY END, I WILL WALK THE PATH THAT GOD HAS PLACED ME ON, AND I WILL DO SO WITH STRENGTH, VIGOR, TENACITY ‑AND WITH THE CONVICTION OF MY GOD‑GIVEN RIGHT OF FREEDOM!
This is my America.
Here I can be educated, filled with common sense, and grow to my fullest potential in ANY place or way I choose. And I can do so with Joy and Love and Peace, because this ability is accorded ALL who come into her shores!
This is my America!
She Loves me! She has given me permission to thrive beyond my wildest dreams! She has taught me what the sacrifices of others have meant. She has showered me with Love so that I may give out that same bountiful Love to others! She Shelters me, Nurtures me ‑ even allows me the Grace to Love those with social rudeness who are in power; and yet, she will not let me be destroyed. While other nations have always suffered such crudeness, America has not. So I choose to do all I can to support her Republic's Foundational Purpose and keep her as strong as I am able.
This is my America!
The very thing that has made her so great is that she does not give me all the social programs I want, and so destroy my ability to be free. No. This America allows me to fail, and get back up to try again, and protects me until I am able to fulfill the Dreams of my choice! By allowing me to fail, she allows me the ability to get back up and press on. She allows me the right to GROW by my mistakes... not destroy me because of them.
THIS IS MY AMERICA!
She is again embattled. This time from within. She is allowing herself to be torn to shreds to see if we understand what her Liberty truly stands for. The stakes may have never been so high. And yet, her emblem, the Statue of Liberty, stands in New York harbour. She reaches out to ALL, and with her Lantern - Lights our way.
She is Love.
She is Beauty.
She is Strength.
She is Accomplished.
Her name is America!
Written: Wednesday, July 22, 2020, 9:09 A.M.
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My Photo Credit of Thanks to our brother, Stephen Tritch
The rising moon over one of his fields in N.E. Indiana.
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