[Leatherneck_MT]

What is an American?

We are the oppressed, the poor, the dregs of the world who were sent to a new land. We are the Mutts of Europe, the Dregs of Africa, the oppressed of Arabia and Asia. We are the throw aways that the rest of the world had no use for.

We came to this country and built a force for Freedom under God that no man or Government on Earth can Conquer.

That is what an American is.

Semper Fi

[Redleg Duke]

Interesting metalurgical analogy. The impurities strengthen the metal. The world threw out their "impurities". They migrated to America, where mixed together, created a strength that existed before only in the ruling classes' worst nightmares.

[Liberty Valance]

Well said Leatherneck MT. The USA is the blueprint for freedom!

Liberty

[risk]

We are the throw aways that the rest of the world had no use for.

And the ones who wouldn't take "no" for an answer, who believed a better life could be made with enough optimism and enough courage. We're not just rejects, we rejected the ones in our old worlds (anywhere from which we've come, not just Europe) who said the rules couldn't be broken.

Never tell an American something is impossible unless that's just what you want him to try to do.

[leadpenny]

I love this story and most of the comments on the thread. Like I told a family member when I sent a link to them, "It is what MY America is about."

[Psycho_Bunny]

Don't forget also, that Americans are the French, Germans, Japanese and etc., who looked around at the country of their birth and decided it sucked; and that there had to be somewhere on Earth where they could go and not be surrounded by a**holes.

The Euro-Elite just don't understand that we don't get along with them because we are the refugees who couldn't stand their sh*t in the first place.