"I am the United States"

"I am the United States. 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 many things and many people.

I am the United States.

I am 180 million living souls and the ghosts of millions who have lived and died for me. I am Nathan Hale, Paul Revere, Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry. I am John Paul Jones, The Green Mountain Boys and Davy Crockett.

I am Independence Hall,the Monitor and the Merrimac. I am Lee, 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 am the Brooklyn Bridge, the wheat lands of Kansas and the granite hills of Vermont. I am the coal fields of the Virginias and Pennsylvania, the fertile lands of the West, the Golden Gate and the Grand Canyon.

Ohhhh, I am big. I sprawl from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Three million square miles throbbing with industry.

I am George Washington Carver, Daniel Webster and Jonas Salk. I am more than 170,000 schools and colleges and 250,000 churches where my people worship God as they think best.

I am the roar of a crowd in a stadium and the voice of a choir in a cathedral. I am Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy.

Yes, I am the nation and these are the things that I am. I was conceived in freedom and God willing, in freedom I will spend the rest of my days. May I possess always 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.

"I am the United States."

 

I did not write this.  It was performed on The Lawrence Welk show.  Oh I miss my America.  America please come back to your roots of God and country.  I love you and will continue to pray for renewal and revival.