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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/2/2011 11:05:13 PM   
LanceHughes


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New Orleans.

Mardi Gras IN New Orleans.  (Other Mardis Gras are pale shadows by compaison.)

The Bahai' Temple in Willmette, Illinois (north of Chicago) which is the North American Temple.

More religious architectural buildings than you can shake a stick at.  St. Patrick's in NYC, The National Cathedral (Episcopalian) in D.C. (or close), again, add your own.

Eternal Flame at JFK burial site.

Tomb of the Unknowns (technically correct BTW)

Carol Burnette (or is that a duplicate? sorry.)
Mary Tyler Moore
Bette Davis

The Supremes
Tina Turner - and her film bio.... OMG!

"Memoirs of a Geisha"  I saw film first, just finished book.  Both are GREAT.

"The Music Man"
"Oklahoma"
and, of course, "West Side Story."

High school productions of every musical.... gawd, those kids put their HEARTS into it, don't they?

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/2/2011 11:13:05 PM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/2/2011 11:32:30 PM   
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Status: offline 		I gotta second what RPG said. America is an idea... an IDEAL, a concept... it's not the land, or the buildings, or even the people.

Ratwankers completely miss the point when they bleat "love it or leave it"... and they completely miss the point when they try to make burning the flag illegal. The Map is NOT the Territory.

On to the things (and people and stuff)...

The NY subway system
Fender guitars and amps
Les Paul
Rock and Roll
The BLues
Jazz
Roots music
Hollywood
Alan Ginsburg
Ken Kesey
Playboy
Tex-Mex
Cajun
Denali
Grand Canyon
Niagara Falls
Zinfandel
The Pacific Coast Highway
Muir Woods
San Francisco
Fajitas
Wild Rice
Bob Dylan
Noam Chomsky
Vichysoisse
New Mexico stacked enchiladas
Pecan pie
New York cheesecake
Ludwig Drums
Air conditioning
The Smithsonian
The Dali Museum
Redwoods
Barbecue
Hippie chicks
Hammond B-3 and Farfisa organs
Tom Morello
The Interstate Highway system
National Geographic
Scientific American
DC Comics
Red Beans n Rice
The Grateful Dead
Owsley acid and Orange Sunshine
The Blue Ridge Parkway
The San Diego Zoo
Blue Bell ice cream



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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 12:48:44 AM   
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Status: offline 		The Constitution
The Omaha beach landing
George Washington renouncing the kingship
Roe v. Wade
Brown v. the Board of Education of Tecumsa
Yosemite and the Grand Canyon
50 states with 50 flags, 50 official state songs, birds, flowers, mottos, etc
Signs that say "You are now entering Arizona"
Peanut butter, Jambalaya, gumbo, grits, cornbread, BBQ, chili, roast turkey with cranberry sauce, cedar planked salmon, the martini, fajitas, pork and beans, Cioppino, Coca-Cola, California rolls, no frills steakhouses
The Statue of Liberty
Apollo 13
The separation of church and state
Sesame Street and the Muppet Show
Chili competitions
BBQ competitions
Multiculturalism
Gospel, Bluegrass, rock and roll, blues
the banjo
baseball, basketball, football
the staunch refusal to learn the metric system
i believe it still is, for many people, a land of opportunity

pam

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 1:01:45 AM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 4:08:05 AM   
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Even though the fellows down in P+R would argue with me, I love our Freedom. Admit it, compared to many places, we have great freedom here. If we disagree with something, well at least we are free to do so.

I love this small town, called, amazingly enough, Liberty, that I live in. Yesterday, we had our "BIG" 4th parade. We had small to large kids, marching proudly, waving at everybody the knew. Trust me, in a town whose population is 2007, in a county whose population is 7000, you pretty much know or at least recognize everybody.

I loved the sun weathered faces of our farmers, young and old alike, smiling proudly as they rode their freshly washed tractors, antique to new, in the parade tossing sweets to the kids. i loved that we had our Flame Queen and her court, in proper gowns, in open cars, waving to the crowds.

I loved the that for this day, crimes and fires were suspended for the parade, so our gleaming fire trucks and police cars could parade through town.

I loved the group of Harleys, Indians and customs that ended the parade, all carrying flags, with the ol' ladies walking next to them handing out ballons, flags, candy to the crowd, picking up wee children to give them a two second ride in the parade.(Biker chickie remember)

I love that for this weekend our prices go wayyyy back to the past, with nickle lemonade and twenty five cent hotdogs

I love that this morning, the entire town, Catholics, Baptists, Christians of every flavor, Wiccans, Jews, Druids, our 3 buddists, will gather on the steps and lawn of city hall for a service honoring our Vets. Then will be organized onto the steps for the Yearly Town Photo, hung in the Library and city hall, until next year. Then we will gather as we wander over to the fire dept for pancakes as a community.

I love that unless you are a violent offender, the Sheriffs will bring you out of our huge(11 bed)jail, to be in the photo, and have a hotdog.

I love that I am priveledged and graced to live under the stars and bars, that my freedom to enjoy the life I love is granted me simply by virtue of being born an American.



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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 4:21:40 AM   
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So many good posts on this thread! 

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 7:29:18 AM   
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Made in America.

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:21:14 AM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:24:27 AM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:52:18 AM   
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Go big American made tits, GO!!

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:52:41 AM   
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ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
While we still have them!

Well, yes, I was wondering whether to include that in parentheses. But I was trying to be positive in this thread

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:57:53 AM   
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Buckminster Fuller
Robert A. Heinlein (and Ginny)
Fred Rogers
Tasha Tudor
Edward Stratemeyer
Louisa May Alcott
Georgia O'Keeffe
Frank Lloyd Wright
The National Parks and Seashores
Jane Yolen

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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 11:58:07 AM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 12:14:44 PM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 3:32:44 PM   
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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 3:34:18 PM   
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What do I love about America? What it stands for. Not to US citizens, or too foreign leaders, but what America means to the man in the street the world over.

The idea. America is an idea, the idea that freedom can be made to work. That just maybe a country can work based on the idea that a person should be as nearly free as can be arranged, that a man can make his own way, and that a people made up of just such men can as well.

The dream. America is a dream. it is a dream of freedom hidden in the hearts of billions of oppressed people the world over. Maybe they can get to America, or maybe America can come to them, or maybe even, they can make their own America wherever they live.

The hope. America is a hope. The hope that freedom will survive, and that in time it will spread. That like an insidious disease, the germ of freedom spreads out from America.

The promise. America is a promise, a promise made to the people of the world. That as long as it stands, as imperfect and often off track as it may get at times, the idea will not die.

You have probably noticed by now that I haven't really mentioned anything that actually applies to or affects the people of the USA. That's because America doesn't belong to the people of the U.S., it belongs to everybody else. America is not the same thing as the USA. The USA belongs to you, it is your country, yours to figure out and to do whatever you want with. But America, the idea, dream, hope, and promise that is America, that belongs to the rest of us, and you are only the caretakers of America. And no matter how powerful the USA gets, America will always be infinitely stronger.

Do what you will with the USA, but take good care of America, we have entrusted it to you, please don't fuck it up.

Take the idea of America into your hearts and make it part of you, keep the dream of America alive in your hearts, let the hope of America flourish in your hearts. And keep the promise. it's a promise your ancestors made when they wrote those words that echo in the heart of every free person and every person yearning to be free: We hold these truths to be self evident, that all men are created equal, ...

Noble words that made a weighty promise, one that has been entrusted to you to keep.


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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 3:41:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		Do you know... yesterday somebody asked me "sunshine, where are you from?"  A common question here.  And I found myself saying, "I'm from the USA...  I'm PROUDLY from the USA."  And I meant it.  I haven't felt like that in years and years. 

I enjoy my adopted country.  I love my own.  I love the principles my country was founded upon.

Bob - your post is spot on.  Excellent ... truly excellent.

Best wishes,
sunshine


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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 3:48:47 PM   
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Your Constitution and Bill of Rights.

quote:

While we still have them!
Even if you lose them, they will live on in the hearts and minds of those who value liberty the world over.



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RE: Things I Love About America - 7/3/2011 4:00:23 PM   
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