
7-4-2023
Celebrating Our Nation July 4th 2023
Where is our national pride? Has it suddenly gone missing or has this occurred over time? I’m reminded of the remarks made by Michelle Obama while First Lady that “America was never great” and “For the first time I’m proud to be an American”.
Then when President Trump began touting America First and Make America Great Again we were told those statements were un-American and patriotism was anti-American. When Trump made his remarks after observing of a military parade overseas, the fervor went even higher because “Trump wanted to parade tanks through the streets of Washington DC”.
It icing on the cake was when Trump announced a national celebration at Mount Rushmore for July 4th 2020 bringing patriotism front and center for all to see and enjoy. The critics were all over it, and not in a good way.
Completely opposite was President Biden’s cancellation of the national celebration, but not changing North Dakota’s schedule of events that are taking place as planned.
Since when has being an American become un-American?
This is our country, love it or leave it still rings true.
The push to change America has included a push to replace July 4th with June 19th as our national day of celebration, not of the creation of the United States, but the so-called equality of black Americans and making “Lift Every Voice” our new national anthem, clearly placing the focus on racial division. Publicly declaring that it is racist to be white.
Let me be clear, God created everyone equal. It is men who use racial, ethnic or region to control and limit other men and women.
It is in America where self-government of the people, by the people and for the people – called the Great Experiment draws migrants from around the globe. Do they come here to bring or continue in their state of fear and confusion?
I think not!
It is what America stands for – Freedom.
Freedom draws the masses to our shores. People want to work hard, raise their families with freedom to settle down, worship God and live out their lives in peace. They begin as migrants but have the ultimate goal of becoming AMERICANS.
To them we say WELCOME! – RTM