America, The Beginning by: Ricky Sholar
As our ancestors came with their plans and their
dreams They created a country from their ideas and schemes They formed a new government that England laughed at People
governing themselves now how silly is that
They came to a land with no houses or stores Just think, these rich people
doing their very own chores Some would not work breaking the law it is said They would be jailed or ended up dead
Jamestown
its said lost hundreds because They were not ready for winter and lots of them starved And disease ran a muck and took
many lives Times were real hard it was tough to survive
So the people of the colonies chose men to lead And there
it began they had planted the seed Each Colony had it’s own leaders they sent To the House of Burgesses each leader
went
Then the Continental congress through war it would grow After the Revolution then Congress would know The
United States of America is now a new nation Our Founding Fathers greatest creation
They needed a president and
of all men there’s just one The father of our country Goerge Washington He set the standards and he lead the way For
all future presidents who lead us today
They created their laws and they governed themselves Their constitutions
and laws really worked out quite well Forty-three presidents and Two hundred years later America through time has become
even greater
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These words spoken to America The Beautiful by The US Military Acadamy 1966
I
was born on July 4th 1776 The Declaration of Independence was my birth certificate Bloodline of the world run in my
veins For I offered freedom to the oppressed I am many things in many people I am the nation I am 300 million
living souls And ghosts of millions who have died for me I am Nathan Hale and Paul Revere I stood at Lexington and
fired the shot heard around the world I am Washington, Jefferson and Patrick Henry I am Lee and Grant and Abe Lincoln I
am remember the Alamo, the Maine and Pearl Harbor When freedom called I answered And I stayed till it was over, over
there I left my heroic dead in Flanders Fields, On the Rock of Corrigador and on the bloody hills of Korea I am the
Brooklyn Bridge The wheat fields of Kansas And the granite hills of Vermont I am the coal fields of the Virginias
and Pennsylvania The Golden Gate the Grand Canyon I am Independence Hall the Monitor the Merrimac I am forest, field,
mountain and dessert I am the quiet villages and the cities that never sleep I am the ballot dropped in the box The
roar of crowds and the voice of a choir in the cathedral You see the lights of Christmas in me And hear the strains
of Auld Ang Syne as the calendar turns Yes I am the nation and these are the things that I am I was conceived in freedom And
God willing in freedom will spend the rest of my days May I possess always The integrity, the courage and the strength
to keep myself unshackled To remain a citadel of freedom And a beacon of strength to the world This is my wish,
my goal, my prayer 230 years after my birth
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