What does America mean to me? I means I was fortunate enough to be born an American and had opportunitities of which billions of other humans on the globe have not been able to experience.
Our freedoms weren’t just given to us without great sacrifices made by others. Our American soul has been challened throughout our history. We live in the greatest democracy in the history of the world and it literally made me ill on January 6th when I saw our own people not only assault our democracy, but as well display utter disdain towards the greatest document for Freedom ever written…the U.S. Constitution.
Being an American to me also means the rest of the world is looking at us and hoping we continue to be the voice and shining example of what it means to live a life where you can not only be free, but you can dream to be your best and help others along the way dream of being their best.
These three paragraphs above are why I never in any way connected with Donald Trump in my realm of thought of what it means to be an American.
But to my credit… I’m certain every U.S. President from Grover Cleveland to Joe Biden would nod their head in agreement with me as to what I’ve written above on what it means to be an American.
If you served our country in the pursuit of liberty and freedom… Thank you.