Tuesday, October 21, 2008

I am America...We are America together.

"I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, With Liberty and Justice for all."









The Star-Spangled Banner Lyrics

O! say can you see by the dawn's early light
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming.
And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep,
Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes,
What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep,
As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning's first beam,
In full glory reflected now shines in the stream:
'Tis the star-spangled banner! Oh long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

And where is that band who so vauntingly swore
That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion,
A home and a country should leave us no more!
Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution.
No refuge could save the hireling and slave
From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave:
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war's desolation!
Blest with victory and peace, may the heav'n rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation.
Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just,
And this be our motto: 'In God is our trust.'
And the star-spangled banner in triumph shall wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

I am America. I am a husband and a father. I love my family. I work to provide for my family. I want my children to have a better life than I, as my father before me. I am an Eagle Scout. I pray daily. I am a church going person. I attend church most Sundays. I believe in agency for all men as given by God. I believe in personal responsibility and I believe in being my brothers keeper and helping others; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. I have lived in large cities. I have lived in small towns.I am America. I love America. I am Pro-America. We don't have to agree. We don't have to be the same. We don't have to like the same teams. We can still be friends. We don't all have to be the same, that is not America. We are America. You and me. Where we come from where we have been. Big City Small Town. Difference is what makes us great. I use a Mac; you a PC. We are America.
Together America.

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