July 4th

America is not a place. She is an idea, an ideal, something we strive for and often fall short of. To all who have served in any capacity, as soldiers, as first responders, as civil servants, as educators: THIS is the thing we try to create, the thing many have given their lives for, dedicated careers to, the thing so many abandon their homelands to seek: America in all her glory.
She is not a place.
She is an ideal.

Happy Independence Day.

I submit to you two pieces that say it better than I ever could.
1.) https://www.oakparkusd.org/cms/lib5/CA01000794/Centricity/Domain/356/quiltOfACountry.pdf
2.) https://poets.org/poem/let-america-be-america-again

-CL