I know that I am a day early, but I wanted to get my birthday wishes out to this great country, and to do so, I chose to use a poem that was read by an American Legend, John Wayne.

American, Why I Love Her

Written by John Mitchum

Poet/Actor

You ask me why I love her? Well, give me time, and I'll explain...

Have you seen a Kansas sunset or an Arizona rain?

Have you drifted on a bayou down Louisiana way?

Have you watched the cold fog drifting over San Francisco Bay?

Have you heard a Bobwhite calling in the Carolina pines?

Or heard the bellow of a diesel in the Appalachia mines?

Does the call of Niagra thrill you when you hear her waters roar?

Do you look with awe and wonder at the Massachusetts shore...

Where men who braved a hard new world, first stepped on Plymouth Rock?

And do you think of them when you stroll along a New York City dock?

Have you seen a snowflake drifting in the Rockies...way up high?

Have you seen the sun come blazing down from a bright Nevada sky?

Do you hail to the Columbia as she rushes to the sea...

Or bow your head at Gettysburg...in our struggle to free?

Have you seen the mighty Tetons?...Have you watched an eagle soar?

Have you seen the Mississippi roll along Missouri's shore?

Have you felt a chill at Michigan, when on a winters day,

Her waters rage along the shore in a thunderous display?

Does the word "Aloha"...make you warm?

Do you stare in disbelief when you see the surf come roaring in at Waimea Reef?

From Alaska's gold to the Everglades...frm the Rio Grande to Maine...

My heart cries out...my pulse runs fast at the might of her domain.

You ask me why I love her?...I've a million reasons why.

My beautiful America...beneath God's wiide, wide sky.

That pretty much sums it up! Have a Great 4th of July! and Don't forget those who fight, so that we can be free! Happy Birthday America, may your colors long wave!

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