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This little section goes way back. It was 1976 when I first started writing good things about America as a part of my PROGRAMS America. At that time I figured there was certainly enough good stuff about America to last me a lifetime. People just naturally stood up for The Star Spangled Banner and we didn’t make clothes out of the American flag. Most everyone flew the flag right side up and we didn’t have breaking news on half a dozen TV stations keeping folks all riled up about things back then. We didn’t have Facebook and Twitter and a hundred other social networks where a story might get a million hits in a day and the stock market didn’t zoom up and down like a couple of little playful kids were running it. In 1976 Gerald Ford was President and he rode on our Grand Trunk Western Railroad campaigning with speeches at station stops. I shot photos of him with our railroad president on his private car with just the wives, his chief surgeon and the other photographer present. I sure felt “something good” that day having that honor.
What if I asked you, the reader, to tell me something good about America right now? What would you say? Would the good things come a pouring out of your mouth and right from your soul? Me? I’m starting a list from scratch to see if I can name five things. Then ten. Then twenty. Then a hundred. I won’t qualify my answers with a “Yes, but…”
What is good about America is we have people with the talent and the freedom to defeat this invisible enemy, Covid19 virus.
God Bless America!
There are many kind and good people in our country who are working hard to help one another in all kinds of ways, from stocking our groceries, to fighting our fires, to keeping us safe, to providing health care. The list goes on and on. And many people are quietly helping one another through encouragement, music, poetry, humor. That list also goes on and on. However, I must say that I do not believe this to be an “American” trait. It is a human trait.