MY TRIBUTE TO AMERICA
        
                                                                   
                                                   This Flag...the symbol of the hopes of man.
                                                   This cloth of dreams for freedom, justice,
                                                   and opportunity.   Its stars are like beacons
                                                   guiding us through the shoals of adversity.
                                                                           
                                                  Its red stripes like wounds of struggle.  The 
                                                  good in it cannot be had for nothing...like any
                                                  garden, it must be tended...like any loved one,
                                                  it must be held.  Hold this flag high and keep its
                                                  promise bright, for in it lies the best hope for all
                                                  of us.   Mort Walker June 14, 1990

                                                                         

                               
                                    I AM THE NATION
                                                                            
                                                                         
                              I was born on July 4, 1776, and the Declaration of Independence
                              is my birth certificate.  The bloodlines of the world run in my
                              veins, because I offered freedom to the oppressed.  I am the
                              nation!


                              I am 281 million living souls and the ghosts of those who have
                              lived and fought and died for me.

                                                                    

                             I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere.  I stood at Lexington and
                             fired the shot heard around the world.  I am Washington,    
                             Jefferson, and Patrick Henry.  I am John Paul Jones, the Green
                             Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett.  I am Lee, Grant, Abe
                             Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Pershing, Eisenhower, MacArthur,
                             Patton, and Colin Powell.

                             I remember the Alamo, the Maine, Pearl Harbor and September
                             11, 2001.  When freedom called, I answered and stayed until it
                             was over, over there.  I left my heroic dead in Flanders Fields, the
                             rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea, in the steaming
                             jungle of Vietnam and the desert sands of Kuwait.
                                                                    
                              I am the Statute of Liberty, the wheat fields of Kansas, the
                              granite hills of Vermont, and Tennessee the Volunteer State.  I
                              am the coalfields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile
                              lands of the west, the Golden Gate, Brooklyn Bridge and the
                             Grand Canyon.  I am Independence Hall, the Monitor, the 
                             Merrimac and the Challenger.  I am the Liberty Bell that first
                             rang for freedom.

                                                                                            

                             I am big.  I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific  - three million
                             square miles of land throbbing with industry.  I am two million
                             farms.  I am forest, field, mountain and desert.  I am quiet
                             villages and cities that never sleep.  You can look at me and see
                             Ben Franklin walking down the streets of Philadelphia with his
                             breadloaf under his arm.   You can see the lights of Christmas and
                             hear the strains of "Auld Land Syne" as the calendar turns.

                             I am Babe Ruth and the World Series.  I am more than 170,000
                             schools and colleges and more than 300,000 churches where my
                             people worship God as they choose.  I am a ballot dropped into a
                             box, the roar of a crowd in a stadium, the voice of a choir in a
                             cathedral.  I am an editorial in a newspaper and a letter to     
                             Congress.  I am John Glenn and Neil Armstrong and their fellow
                             astronauts who whirl above my head.  I am Eli Whitney and
                             Stephen Foster, Tom Edison, Albert Einstein and Billy Graham.  I
                             am Horace Greeley, Will Rogers and the Wright brothers.  I am 
                             George Washington Carver, Jonas Salk and Martin Luther King
                             Jr.  I am Longfellow, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walt Whitman and
                             Thomas Paine.

                             Yes, I am the nation and these are the things I am.  I was 
                             conceived in freedom and God willing, in freedom I shall spend
                             the rest of my days.  

                             May I always possess the integrity, the courage and the strength
                             to keep myself unshackled, to remain a citadel of freedom and a
                              beacon of hope to the world.
                   ByOtto Whitaker, Jr.  Revised by M.T. Foresthill and D. Mitchell Jones

                                                 

                           

                    
                                                                        

                                                   
  
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