Monday, July 4, 2016

Happy Fourth of July: Be grateful, be proud, be united.

People have died for an idea, a lot of people, they fought and gave up their lives because they wanted something better for their families. They faced hardships, starved and met great obstacles to start something new and daring. A place where you had freedom to choose your own destination, religion, opportunity: America was born.

Over time, our perspective changed, what was right and wrong challenged and again people died for freedoms that we all share. They died to keep a country united, they died because they believed in something.

The following years there were people who rode the bus against the rules, dared to speak when they weren’t welcome to, dared to imagine being equal, being free. They fought, they died for an idea, so their families could know freedom and justice.

In our current complacent state, there still are wrongs, there still are injustices but we have come too great a distance to see our country being divided by the same government that is supposed to unite it. We have a media that speaks the same language the government speaks and insists the victims are victims and insist they deserve something, even at the risk of crippling them.

We have candidates insisting they will make everything better, again, little hope that we, America, could stand and be America again. I don’t see us as a country full of victims but if you listen to the news you would think that’s what makes America.

Police are criminals and criminals are saints, sounds like an old familiar song. The same freedom soldiers died for allows us to step and degrade the very flag that allows us the freedoms we don’t, by right, deserve. We are lucky to live in this country, we are lucky to be able to complain about how hard we have it, I would suggest instead thank a soldier and thank God we live in America.


Let us Make America the best it’s ever been!! Together, not divided, one nation of people, not colors, not creeds-we Americans. Happy fourth of July.

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