Reposted from 2004
Little girls who wear braces but still smile
Sons who grow up to honorable manhood
The Missoula Children's Theater
High school sports events
Good music and the people who make it ...
... especially American-born music.
The interstate highway system
The saving love of God
Pioneer women, who actually settled the country - the men only occupied it.
That this man and his peers lived when they did
For all those who labor in the healing arts and sciences (this is Alexander Fleming, discoverer of penicillin)
For Boy Scout leaders and Eagle Scouts
And for goofy Girl Scout parties, too!
That America went to the moon and I got to watch it live on TV ...
... and for private dreamers who made the moon come true, and will again.
That I lived to see another day in 1998
For Christmas mornings
For the magnificence of this land
For those who build our country ...
... and who just go to work each day
For the heroes of our home soil ...
... who lifted our hearts in darkened days
For sacrifices of past generations ...
... and of the present one (Lance Cpl. Stephen Sensing, USMC, vic. Fallujah, Iraq, 5 Nov. 2005)
For the hearts of American GIs - past ...
... and present ...
... who fight for freedom ...
... and bear the scars on their souls.
"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time. The hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." Thomas Jefferson
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