Happy birthday, U.S.A., a grand experiment in opportunity, welcoming, growing, and working out lots of kinks that create dissonance between what we aspire to be and what we are.
The key is in the becoming.
We have not yet become.
We are not static.
We have had wars outside and inside our borders and even among our countrymen … some declared, some not even acknowledged..
Our wars have not defined us, but have, at times,shaped and refined us.
We have had disagreements, inconsistencies, atrocities, hypocrisies, and contradictions, but we have an essentially righteous philosophy that has been articulated and is waiting to be fully applied.
The core structure is laid so that we can work these things out.
We are a community of communities.
We are not perfect, but we are capable of fixing our imperfections.
We are diverse. That is a strength.
We are changing.
We are free.
We thank our thinkers and our protectors, our builders and our critics today.
We join hands and sing of our common love and aspiration.
Let us, the many, the multi-cultured, multilingual, diverse, unique threads in the tapestry which is our essential flag, be one people.
I love what America could be, should be, and in the hearts of many, aspires to be.
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