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<p class=MsoNormal>“I am an American” – Author Unknown<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“I AM AN AMERICAN...listen to my words. Listen well,
for my country<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>is a strong country, and my message is a strong message.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and I speak for democracy and the dignity
of the <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>individual.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my ancestors have given their blood
for freedom:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the green of Lexington and the snow at Valley Forge,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the walls of Fort Sumter and the fields at Gettysburg,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the waters of the Marne and in the shadows of the
Argonne,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the beachheads of Salerno and Normandy and the sands of
Okinawa,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the bare, black hills called Pork Chop and Old Baldy and
Heartbreak Ridge, a million<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>and more of my countrymen have died for freedom.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my country is their eternal monument.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my ancestors have bequeathed to me:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The laughter of a small boy as he watches a circus
clown’s antics,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The sweet, delicious coldness of the first bite of
peppermint ice cream on the Fourth of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>July,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The little tenseness of a baseball crowd as the umpire
calls, “Batter Up!”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The high school band’s rendition of the “Stars
and Stripes Forever,” in the Memorial Day<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>parade,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The clear, sharp ring of a school bell on a crisp fall
morning, These and many others<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>things they fought for and left me.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and the fruits of my thought and labor
are mine to enjoy.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my happy land is a land of many
realms and mansions:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It is a land of Ohio corn and potatoes and pastures,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It is the
realm of hundreds of acres of golden wheat stretching across flat miles of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Kansas,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>It is the land of precision assembly lines in Detroit, It is
the realm of milling cattle<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>in the stockyards of Chicago, It is the land of glowing
skylines of Pittsburgh and<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Birmingham, of San Francisco and New York, And my churches
and homes are the mansions of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>heaven. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and the love of God has made me free.”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and in my churches and homes everyone
worships God in his own way:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The young Jewish boy saying: “Hear, 0 Israel, the Lord
is One, “<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Catholic girl praying: “Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is -with thee,”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The Protestant boy singing: “A Mighty Fortress is Our
God, “Each one believing and praying<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>as he must, And all joining in the universal prayer:
“Our Father, who art in<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Heaven,” with the voice in the soul of every human
being that cries out to be free,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and I believe that America has answered
that voice.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my country offers freedom and
opportunity such as no land before<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>her has ever done:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom to work, as mechanic or farmer, as merchant or truck
driver,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom to think, as chemist or lawyer, as doctor or priest,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom to love, as child, as parent, sweetheart, husband,
wife,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom to speak, to pray, to read, to argue, to praise, to
criticize,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom to live one - or two - hundred million different
lives.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and my heritage is of the land and of the
spirit, of the heart and of<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>the soul.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...and these are my words. Show me a now a
country greater than my<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>country, a people happier than my people.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I AM AN AMERICAN...I speak for democracy and the dignity of
the individual.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“America”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>By Neil Diamond<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/America.mp3">http://www.tomandrodna.com/America.mp3</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>“Far<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We've been traveling far<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Without a home<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>But not without a star<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Free<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Only want to be free<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>We huddle close<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Hang on to a dream<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>On the boats and on the planes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Never looking back again<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Home, don't it seem so far away<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Oh, we're traveling light today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In the eye of the storm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In the eye of the storm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Home, to a new and a shiny place<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Make our bed, and we'll say our grace<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom's light burning warm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Freedom's light burning warm<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Everywhere around the world<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Every time that flag's unfurled<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Got a dream to take them there<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Got a dream they've come to share<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>They're coming to America<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today, today, today, today, today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My country 'tis of thee<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Sweet land of liberty<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Of thee I sing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Of thee I sing<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Today”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Seeya on the Square, Moscow.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>"Patriotism
is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady
dedication of a lifetime."<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>-- Adlai E.
Stevenson, Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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