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America












"A m e r i c a"
Why I Love Her



You ask me Why I Love Her?
Well, give me time and I'll explain.
Have you seen a Kansas sunset
Or an Arizona rain?
Have you drifted on a bayou
Down Louisiana way?
Have you watched a cold fog drifting
Over San Francisco Bay?




Have you heard a bobwhite calling
In the Carolina pines,
Or heard the bellow of a diesel
At the Appalachia mines?
Does the call of Niagara thrill you
When you hear her waters roar?
Do you look with awe and wonder
At her Massachusetts shore,
Where men who braved a hard new world
First stepped on Plymouth's rock?





And do you think of them when you stroll
Along a New York City dock?
Have you seen a snowflake drifting
In the Rockies, way up high?
Have you seen the sun come blazing down
From a bright Nevada sky?
Do you hail to the Columbia
As she rushes to the sea,
Or bow your head at Gettysburg
At our struggle to be free?




Have you seen the mighty Tetons?
Have you watched an eagle soar?
Have you seen the Mississippi
Roll along Missouri's shore?
Have you felt a chill at Michigan
When on a winter's day
Her waters rage along the shore
In thunderous display?





Does the word "Aloha" make you warm?
Do you stare in disbelief
When you see the surf
Come roaring in at Waimea Reef?
From Alaska's cold to the Everglades,
From the Rio Grande to Maine,
My heart cries out, my pulse runs fast
At the might of her domain.





You ask me Why I Love Her?
I've a million reasons why:
My Beautiful America,
Beneath God's wide, wide sky.









    
WHAT IS AN AMERICAN?


You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was
actually a report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an
offer of a reward to anyone who killed an American - any American.  So, an
Australian dentist wrote the following to let everyone know what an
American is, so they would know when they found one.


An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
Polish, Russian or Greek. An American may, also, be Canadian, Mexican,
African, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Australian, Iranian, Asian, or Arab, or
Pakistani, or Afghan. An American may, also, be a Cherokee, Osage,
Blackfoot, Navaho, Apache, or one of the many other tribes known as native
Americans.


An American is Christian, or he or she could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or
Muslim. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The
only difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
chooses.


An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will answer
only to God, not to the government, nor to armed thugs claiming to speak
for the government and for God.


An American is from the most prosperous land in the history of the world.
The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each man and woman to
the pursuit of happiness.


An American is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other
nation in the world in their time of need. When Afghanistan was overrun by
the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans came with arms and supplies to
enable the people to win back their country. As of the morning of September
11, Americans had given more than any other nation to the poor in
Afghanistan.


Americans welcome the best, the best products, the best books, the best
music, the best food, the best athletes.


But they also welcome the least. One national symbol of America, The Statue
of Liberty, welcomes "your tired and your poor, the wretched refuse of your
teeming shores, the homeless, tempest tossed." These in fact are the people
who built America. Some of them were working in The Twin Towers the morning
of September 11, earning a better life for their families.


I've been told that the World Trade Center victims were from at least 30
other countries and cultures with first languages other than English
including those countries of the 9/11 terrorists.


So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler tried. So did
General Tojo, Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and every bloodthirsty tyrant in
the history of the world. But, doing so would be futile because Americans
are not a particular people from a particular place. They are the
embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to that
spirit, everywhere, is an American.


Pass this around the World.


 




KEEP IT LIT!


                            
Keep The Candle Going I asked God for water, he gave me an ocean. I asked God for a flower, he gave me a garden. I asked God for a tree, he gave me a forest. I asked God for a friend, he gave me YOU. "There is not enough darkness in the world to put out the light of one candle." The Candle of Love, Hope and Friendship



This candle was lit on the 11th of
September, 2001. Someone who loves you has helped keep it alive by sending it to you. Don't let The Candle Of Love, Hope and Friendship die! "A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle"


And God Bless and Light A  candle for our Military who are





protecting our Country for our  freedom.           



PLEASE KEEP IT GOING TO YOUR FRIENDS

We are praying for the safety of all our military somewhere away from home.

May GOD bless you all!

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