[La Enchiladita]

What do I love about AMERICA????

That is a great question, thank you. My heart swells with pride just thinking of how much I love my country.

First of all, it’s my Home Sweet Home. You bet. It is beautiful and majestic, sea to shining sea. Our people are honest, hard-working, generous, compassionate, fierce in battle yet kind to strangers, always ready to pitch in: our people are the BEST!! I love our food: fried chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, corn on the cob, apple pie, homemade ice cream, hot steaming coffee, cold beer and on and on. I love our hot, carefree summers and our cold, cozy winters. I love our Christmases, with Santa Claus remembering every boy and girl, colored lights and mistletoe and caroling. I love our National Anthem, the Star Spangled Banner and tear up even typing about it. I love our men and women serving in the Armed Forces, past and present, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard and Air Force. I love the freedom they have given us and continue to guarantee for us, the best quality of life ever enjoyed by human beings in all of history and all of the world. I love that we love ALMIGHTY GOD and we honor Him on our money and in our Pledge and on our historic buildings as well as in our Churches every Sunday. I love BASEBALL, America’s Game.... there’s nothing like a summer day watching baseball. I love the 4th of July, the parades and the picnics and red-white-and-blue everywhere, fireworks and John Philip Sousa marches. I love the Blue Angels, the Screaming Eagles, the Green Army, the Top Guns, the Rolling Thunder, the Ironhorse, Stormin’ Norman, King David and the Devil Dogs. I love the trains, carrying passengers and carrying freight, clickety clack riding the day and the night through free and open land. I love the native People, the Dine, who pray at dawn, who wear eagle feathers, who walk in beauty and who dance the Grass Dance and the Shawl dance to the communal drum and the wailing songs.

I love the Prairie in summer with heat lightning on the night horizon. I love the silence, the hush, at Grand Canyon. I love Big Sky and purple mountains, rushing rivers and coyote howl. I love the family pictures that remind me of people who walked this land long before me, and who handed it down with Freedom untarnished.

I love that AMERICA is a Light to the World, and PRAY we will continue to be as long as GOD grants life in this world.

Yes, I LOVE AMERICA.

[ConorMacNessa]

Great post, Dita! Amen to all of it!!

Lamh Foistenach Abu!

[JustAmy]

I agree, Dita.

There is so much to love and be thankful for when we try to express our love for America.

Thank you, God, for blessing America. Please continue to bless our country. Amen.

[Mama_Bear]

Wow, dita! Beautifully expressed! Just the way I would have said it, but I never could have come close to saying it that well.

Thank you for reminding me of all the reasons why, I LOVE AMERICA too!

[jaycee]

Thank you so much for that Dita......America, how lovely you are to us. God Bless America Again.

[luvie]

Haven’t heard about the “blue-on-Friday” e-mail. I will just
continue to wear red. I guess it’s a personal thing, but blue
has been associated with DIMs for the past 2 presidential terms.

So......

[MEG33]

Beautiful, Dita! and Amen Thank God I was born in this wonderful, beautiful FREE country.
As for the video..It’s settled ..must get one of those for me and the kitties!
;o)

[GodBlessUSA]

Hi Dita :)
I read this Friday and had to leave before I could post. This terrific to read! This is uplifting, especially after I was reading the news. We are truely blessed. Thanks for pinging me to your post!