WHAT DOES BEING AN AMERICAN MEAN TO YOU?
Every day, I hear people tell me they are �proud to be an American�, and I say the same back to them. I sometimes wonder if they really know what it means to... View MoreWHAT DOES BEING AN AMERICAN MEAN TO YOU?
Every day, I hear people tell me they are �proud to be an American�, and I say the same back to them. I sometimes wonder if they really know what it means to utter those words.
To be a real American means to Love the Land, all of it, from one coast to the other, and to love it with all your Soul. It is almost a spiritual thing to be a real American.
To be an America does not mean you can divorce yourself from that word �American� or separate it with a hyphen into a combination of another country. You cannot be an Italian-American, or an Irish-American, or Afro-American, or German-America �
Your either one or the other.
Your ancestors may have come from there and you may have the blood of the old country running in your veins, but if you love this country, then you�re a pure red-white and blue flag-waving American. It�s that simple.
That little hyphen seems to separate us as one people in one land and we must stop doing this if we are ever to elevate ourselves to the greatest our country is destined to achieve. We are ONE people, � with ONE voice, � in ONE country � we should never forget this regardless of where our forefathers came from.
I am proud of the Irish blood that runs in my veins, but when someone from a foreign country ask me where I am from and what nationality I am�I always say AMERICAN �and that�s the way it should be. I was not born in Ireland and have no loyalty to that country.
Being an American DOES NOT mean you always have to like those who is in �charge of the boat�. Sometimes we have a Saint in charge, sometimes we have the lowest of Sinners as our Captains, but that does not affect our love of country.
That does not mean that I am any less an American if I critical of the sinner who happens to be running the boat. On the contrary, if he is intentionally trying to run our ship of state a-ground, it is my duty, as well as it is your duty, to speak up to his transgressions.
We as Americans own NO allegiance to anyone who wishes to destroy our country and what it stands for. Remember that !
On the other hand, if the saint driving the ship is preforming his duties in an admirable manner, then we have an obligation to support and defend his actions against the weasels who think otherwise.
Respect, honors, and integrity is always an earned thing and never come automatically with the position or office held.
So in a nutshell � what does it mean to me to be an American?
"It means standing up for the country that bore me. It means defending the rights and freedoms that our forefathers gave to us by their sweat, blood and tears. It means defending the faith that made this the greatest nation among all nations. It means loving and respecting the founding documents of this nation almost as much as the Bible that gave us our stone-solid moral ground to stand on. It means taking up arms to defend the things we cherish if and when necessary. Finally, it means giving the last full measure if necessary to keep what has been passed to us by our forefathers".
It means pride in who we are, and what we stand for.
Above all else, it means ; Mom and Apple Pie and Sunday morning church bells !
God Bless America � and Stay the course !
