"They've All Come to Look for America"
As for "Multi-Culturalism"...
seems the multiculturalists missed the first and best multi-culture
event... it's called the United States of America! It works
best when all participants "melted" into one culture. The great
culture of freedom, democracy, free enterprise, and self reliance!
Couple of nights ago I was
listening to Simon & Garfunkle... "America"... lovely song... but
what really got to me was the ending chorus... "They've all come to
look for America... All come to look for America... All come to look
for America"
That chorus... oh my God!
For years it's reminded me of the great immigration of our parents
and grandparents... Ellis Island... steamships crossing the
Atlantic... black and white images of families gathered
together deck side with their sole possessions bundled up in bags.
Finally after days at sea,
breaking through fog, looming on horizon, the statue of Liberty welcomes
them with open arms of hope to The United States of America!
Pride swells with excitement of joining countless others in the
greatest union of the world's people...
Ship after ship flock the
harbor... other ships wait at sea holding their place in line...
people of all colors, languages, and stature in life passed
through Ellis Island to face a future better here than from where
they came... all eagerly embraced One Nation Under God!!!!
Can you see the ships
gathering from far and wide?
They found opportunity,
created businesses, learned the English language, and "melted" into
one culture....
Listen to the opening
humming of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkle... imagine the deep
drone of the ships engines... ringing in the passenger's ears for
days and nights...
Can you see the parade of
ships gathering from far and wide?
Just a few years ago, Ellis
Island was an abandon ghost town in total disrepair... I cried when
seeing images of that place then... thinking of my grandfather
standing in long lines for hours among the other hopefuls there
going through the process soon to become American
citizens... my own father, then just an infant, crossed the Atlantic
in a paddle wheel steam ship with his mother to be reunited
with his father who preceded them here...
How soon we forget....
Can you see the parade of
ships gathered from far and wide?
These were the same ones too
soon to take up arms, fight, and die for this great country... many
on the same soil from where they or their fathers came... They came
here to proudly raise the American flag in front of their homes and
shops...
Can you see the parade of
ships gathered from far and wide?
Great minds, the pride of
their parents, worked hard to put themselves through our great
institutions of learning... became the great industrialists,
inventors, scientists, doctors, and artists... opportunities
otherwise unavailable were it not for this great country.
They built a railway coast
to coast, later a road system for automobile travel for all to
freely traverse, to see and discover the magnificent natural and
cultural riches of our great country...
Can you see the parade of
ships gathered from far and wide?
Can you see the little ships
that preceded them? For as bold and brave as were our parents and
grandparents to embark from the lands they knew to find a better
life in America... there were a few small ships that set sail long
before... imagine their vision... there was no Ellis Island
then... no cities... no government... all that, was yet a vision
carried in their hearts... see what faith and hope can do...
Do you have faith and hope?
Can you see the parade of
ships?
The United States of America
became the most prosperous, powerful, and generous nation of people
the world has ever known. Let us never forget our humble
beginnings.
And to think that just a few
decades later so many of her citizens would devote their passion to
criticizing and denigrating this great country!
Shame on them! God Bless America!
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