GOOD MORNING AND HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY EVERYBODY!!!!
HERE"S SOMETHING I WROTE UP FOR TODAY.
The Place I’d Rather Be In
By: Pippin
July 3, 2003
HELLOW!
I thought I’d take this 4th of July holiday to set some things straight. To show were my allegiance is.
Firstly, I’d like to say; I’m what you’d call one of them hyphenated Americans. Well…At least in liberal terms, ugh! My father is from the hills of East Tennessee, and when he was in the Army and stationed in Washington State. He and a buddy if his went up to Vancouver, BC on a 24-hour furlough. Like young men of that time, (the 1950’s) they went up there with no money or food for their trip. They drove around Vancouver till they got to Stanley Park and saw these young women eating their lunch in the park. (They were my mother and her sister and a couple of friends and coworkers)
My dad told his friend to stop the car near were the women were sitting to ask them for something to eat. Remember that this was the 1950’s! To make a long story short, when they approached the women. My mom and her sister accepted a ride with these two American soldiers to where my mom and my aunt lived. They fixed the two soldiers something to eat and let the clean up for their ride back to Washington State. The woman who would later become my mother and the soldier who would later become my father dated for over a year before they decided to marry in 1956. My mom was born and raised in Canada, though her parents were both from Minnesota, They were Americans.
I remember visiting my grandmother and my aunts and uncles in Saskatchewan. I really enjoyed going there, the people were so nice and the country was beautiful.
But as much as I enjoyed my visits to Canada, That’s all I want to do there is visit…I prefer living here in the USA!
I did some traveling to foreign lands like England, Italy, Spain and Portugal. I really liked it in Italy the land is beautiful and the people friendly and nothing can beat England in July! But, though I enjoyed visiting these lands…I prefer living here in the USA!
I am heavily into my genealogy and have discovered my ancestors were from England, Scotland, Ireland and Germany. I would love to visit these countries and walk the streets my great grandparents once roamed in. Would be a powerful and connecting moment. But though I have thought of doing these things, I still prefer living here in the USA!
So, you see, although I traveled and am a bit of a globetrotter. The best part of traveling is coming back to a wonderful country such as this. I love the freedom that others in those countries don’t really have. I have to freedom to speak out on things I don’t agree with or that I do agree with. The freedom to vote in a fair election for candidates who I think will do a good job in the offices they seek to occupy.
I thank those men and women who have left their homes and families to fight for these freedoms we have here. I thank those who’ve paid the ultimate price for this nation.
I’m proud to be an American, and I thank God every day that I was born here, where I prefer to live.
GOD BLESS THE USA!
