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Commentary Just hearing the question “Why do I love America?” leads me to ask how can we not love this country? America is a city on a hill, a bright ...

Commentary America is Freedom. Freedom is America. Freedom has been America’s guiding light for those who have come ...

  By Bill Schmidt Commentary I was raised in Texas in the 50’s and early 60’s with two ...

Commentary In 1776, the “course of human events” was such that the thirteen American colonies of Great Britain ...

Commentary Sipping raspberry lemonade and resting peacefully in the shade on my cradling hammock, I hardly notice the ...

Commentary Why do I love America? The answer is simple: the place is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. It is ...

Commentary One may wonder how an incarcerated felon can find anything to love about the United States of ...

Commentary We were driving across the Golden Gate Bridge when it happened. I’d mentioned to my wife that ...

Commentary As a young teenager, I started to respect the military and the traditions of the United States. ...

Commentary On a cold winter day in 1956, as a young soldier on the way to a meeting ...

Commentary In 1941, during World War II, I was born in Germany. While many German citizens lived through ...

Commentary The reason I love America and what makes it, and our heritage, worth defending is the freedom ...

Commentary When I was young, I had a certain fascination with a country. I romanticized this country, steeped ...

Commentary America is not a nation. America is not a location. America is not a people. America is ...

Commentary   America, How do I love thee?   Let me count the ways. —Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...

Commentary I am not perfect. My parents were not perfect, nor were their parents. Yet somehow my family ...

Commentary Why is it that I love my country And think it best in all the world? Why ...

Commentary My grandpa was raised by a single mother who was a true “Rosie the Riveter.” She worked ...

Commentary I was brought up to love my country and to appreciate its heritage of immigration and how ...

Commentary How do we measure the value of America? Is it measured from a historical perspective? Sociological perspective? ...

Commentary America is the land of opportunity, a nation of freedom and prosperity. She is a nation we ...

Commentary Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited ...

Commentary I am an American, and proud to be one. In an age when our history is under ...

Commentary Growing up in America, I never questioned what it meant to be American. I just was. I ...

The screen door closed behind me with its familiar "whack," and this 10-year-old was off on a surreptitious ...

Commentary As with any relationship, love for country grows with time and experience. Looking back over my life, ...

Commentary “These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in ...