Came From | I was born July 4, 1776 and the Declaration of Independence was my birth certificate. The blood lines of the world runs in my veins because I offer freedom to the oppressed. I am many things to many people. I am a nation, with 265 million living souls--and the ghosts of millions who lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere and Crispus Attucks. I stood at Lexington and fired the shot heard round the world.... I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones and Davy Crockett. My adopted sons include Lafayette and Casmir Pulaski. I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln. I remember the Alamo, the Maine, and Pearl Harbor. When freedom called, I answered and stayed until it was over, over there. I left my heroic dead on Flanders Field, the rock of Corregidor, on the bleak slopes of Korea and the steaming jungles of Vietnam. I am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheatlands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont. I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennslyvania, the oil fields of Texas, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon. I am Independence Hall, the Monitor and the Merrimac. I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific, with my arms reaching out to embrace Hawaii and Alaska. I am forest and field and mountains and desert. I am quiet villages and cities that never sleep. You can look at me and see Ben Franklin on the streets of Philadelphia with a loaf of bread under his arm, and you can see Betsy Ross with her needle. You see the lights of Christmas and hear the strains of "Auld Lang Syne" as the calendar turns. I am Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron and Jack Dempsey and Muhammad Ali. I am more than 250 churches, where my people worship as they think best. I am the ballot dropped into a box, the roar of the crowd at the Super Bowl or World Series. I am an editorial and a letter to your congressman. Yes, I am the Nation and these are the things I am. I was conceived in liberty and, God willing, I will spend the rest of my days to remain a citadel of freedom and beacon of hope. This is my wish on July 4, 1997, 221 years after I was born. Author unknown |
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