One Voice Children’s Choir – America the Beautiful
An evenig pause: Man, do these kids belt this out.
This was once a standard that all kids sang in school. I doubt they teach it anymore. Even when they did, they would rarely make the meaning of the lyrics very clear (Read them all, they are quite profound). Consider for example the most well know first chorus:
America! America!
God shed his grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
It asks for God’s grace, demands goodness from us all, for the sake of brotherhood.. I’ll take that aspiration any day over the modern hateful, diversive Marxist ideologies of critical race theory that strives to tear people apart and instill distrust and racial bigotry.
Hat tip Dan Morris.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
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"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
… now where is my Kleenex box ? ….
What is the common shared culture that defines America and is an important part of the identity of the American people? Is it American folk music for example?
Questioner-
I’m totally convinced a lot of our current problems (on one level) involve a distinct lack of shared-cultural-experiences, for want of a more precisely descriptive phrase. And more-n-more I’m convinced it results from the intentional destruction of our shared national history.
It’s beyond one thing, it’s the American Experience, so to speak. (And that includes American folk-music)
Highly suggest some Tocqueville. Democracy In America specifically, it’s really not a heavy-duty political theory book so much as it is a very detailed picture of a wide range of what it is to be an American, in America.
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democracy in America
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/DETOC/
Mapping How Americans Talk –
https://youtu.be/4HLYe31MBrg
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