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America The Beautiful

posted this on Wednesday, July 3, 2013 at about 8am.
America The Beautiful

I've been very blessed in my life. I've never had to go to war. I've never had to fight for my food. In fact, I've never spent a day hungry unless it was because I chose not to eat.

I've never been without a roof over my head. I've never had to worry about bullies that I could't simply walk away from.

Often, I forget how blessed I am to live in such a wonderful land as the United States of America.

It seems, as I watch the news and hear accounts of so many that many others also seem to forget how blessed they are.

When we complain that our feelings are hurt because someone said the wrong word; when someone loses a job because they said something stupid 25 years ago; we have obviously forgotten how blessed we are.

I think it's helpful to understand the intent upon which our country was built. It was built upon the idea that God watches over us, protects us and provides us with every opportunity we have. It was built up on the idea that we have freedom to do what we please, when we please and how we please as long as we don't prevent others from doing the same.

The philosophy of our founders was that every person was created with the right to be free and have liberty from opression. That oppression too often comes at our own hands. Too often it comes because we forget that freedom comes from the risk of being hurt by those that don't share that view point.

Those that hurt us also share in that same freedom and we should never strive to take that away.

There have been more than plenty who have fought, bled and died so that I wouldn't have to. So that I could have the rights that I have.

When I think of one of our national hymns, America The Beautiful, I wonder how we could have forgotten where our freedom as come from.

O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife.
Who more than self their country loved
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine
Till all success be nobleness
And every gain divine!

Hopefully, this Independence Day, we can remember that it's not about shooting off fireworks or having bar-b-ques. It's about the freedom we have because of those that fought for our rights and liberty.

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What America Really Is

posted this on Monday, July 4, 2011 at about 12pm.
Star Spangled Banner

All to often, I feel that people think that the Star-Spangled Banner is a song that's only purpose it to start a sporting event. I can't tell you how often I've heard someone say, after singing our National Anthem, "Play Ball."

Of course, I know they are joking. I know the don't seriously think that it's only purpose is to start a ball game. However, I think it shows a significant level of disrespect.

One of the challenges we have today is remembering. Remembering the roots of our country. Too many people want to take away our heritage. They want to add meaning or take away meaning from who we are. If we simply look to the fourth stanza of our National Anthem, we can hopefully remember to whom we owe our freedoms.

O! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand
Between their loved home and the war’s desolation.
Blest with vict’ry 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!
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