Founded on July 4th, 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of Independence was an independent America.
On “Independence Day,” July Fourth of this year, Americans are expected to celebrate the 232th Birthday of what was for nearly 200 years; the greatest country on this earth.
For over 2 centuries, Americans enjoyed the finest of ideological societies…that is to say, that Americans and the rest of the world assumed they did. Today everyone clearly sees the other side to the story.
Something “bad” has happened to America. It seems to have gone the way of the poison barb and the whole of the earth’s people see it as a vulgar, violent, and forsaken country…a nation of “freakish bullying hogs” that will stop at nothing to fatten already over stuffed “pigs.”
Overseas we have been waging impunity’s war for more than 60 years; and on our very own shores, the weak, the impoverished, the old, and up and coming generations are being victimized by corrupt political leadership and conglomerate powers as they combine and re-stage “bogus reality” for titillation of the masses. From a controlled media, we as ordinary citizens, are blatantly exposed to brazen and obvious untruths daily to sustain this monster pig’s voracious appetite.
In the world’s eye, we are a nation of lazy, indifferent, apathetic puppets who live a life of luxury. We Americans, most assuredly, have been given an outstanding gift. There was a time when I felt undeniably proud to be an American and celebrated whole heartily on the 4th of July. I am not anti-America, I am disgusted, disillusioned, tired of being lied to, and damn well pissed off. There is no economical reason why any working American can’t sustain a living, yet as it stands today, the ordinary citizen has to struggle every single day just to feed his family. He is an overused and abused mule that is on it’s last leg. The goose that lay golden eggs is fast becoming barren, an endangered species that is going the way of the DODO bird.
So this Fourth of July, when you sing the National Anthem, or wave the flag; whether you enjoy a fireworks display or participate in a family barbecue in celebration of our country’s birthday, realize this one thing: we are enslaving ourselves by our own appetites.
Our health care system, our national debt, our reputation as humanitarians, our quality of life, and our God given rights to pursue happiness is at stake. In today’s world of politics and publicity our representatives and lawmakers have sold out every single American and they have distorted the very principals this great nation was founded upon. Freedom is now but an instrument blasting a sour tune of materialistic nothingness. America the Beautiful has become a nation that embraces things instead of integrity. It’s purple mountain majesty is no longer colored in Liberty. Whereas our Founding Fathers cherished freedom, today’s Senate, Congress, Supreme Court, and political representatives (from the local mayor all the way up to the President) favor self. We, the American people are no longer represented, instead we are directed. One can only guess how long this trend will last before we have lost all that America was meant to be.
Happy Birthday, America!
It is yet still night, early in the morning of July 4th, 2008…sleep averts me and it has started to rain. As this day’s shower increases in intensity and it’s music changes pace, my mind recalls the esteem I once held for America. I am brought back to the days of my early manhood and am sadden with the knowledge that all those who toiled and bleed to uphold the integrity and purpose of this once Great Country have been sold out by the very government they chose to defend.
Today is our country’s birthday and I, one of millions of Americans who desire to see her free again, sit here wanting to write the perfect tribute-a birthday post dedicated to this Nation.
I’m no politician to argue against the injustices in the world, nor am I a brilliant scientist who might offer a cure for a single disease. I am not scholarly and have no answers to solve the real crisis of a failing economy and I am too old to take up arms to defend freedom in America’s name. Thus, thinking just what is it that I do have-well all I have that I can offer this Nation is intangible, but to me, it is graspable, embraceable, and carries the strength of true conviction… the words of Francis Scott Key.
“Oh, say can you see, by the dawn’s early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Now it catches the gleam of the morning’s first beam, In full glory reflected now shines on the stream: ‘Tis the star-spangled banner!
O long may it wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle’s confusion A home and a country should leave us no more? Their blood has wiped out their foul footstep’s pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight, or the gloom of the grave: And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave. Oh! thus be it ever, when freemen shall stand Between their loved homes and the war’s desolation! Blest with victory and peace, may the heaven-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!
Comment by Frederick Edson — July 4, 2008 @ 1:10 pm |
And I, one who willingly sacrificed limbs and blood in battles fought side by side with the daring and bold Americans I called brother join you in their praise. God Bless America.
Comment by RL Bourton — July 15, 2008 @ 9:16 pm |