Happy Birthday America

It is a mark of greatness for a country that its citizens who were born impaired can become handy-capable because of the services said country provide (happy birthday America); somewhere in some baseball farm system, a poor immigrant young man will start the journey of becoming a highly paid athlete (happy birthday America); In some park or Mall, a little girl or boy will be discovered and become some future matinee idol

(happy birthday America); somewhere in a small town, someone will randomly choose numbers that will net him or her millions in winning the lottery (happy birthday America); many across this country make a good living without breaking a sweat (happy birthday America); somewhere, some murderer will be given gratis a mouth peace advocate to defend him vigorously (happy birthday America); somewhere, there is an immigrant berating the country or perhaps addressing someone in authority with colorful metaphors-something that would have gotten him incarcerated or killed in his native country (happy birthday America); somewhere, there are Africans, Cubans, Haitians, Chinese, West Indians, moving heaven and earth to get to these shores (happy birthday America); somewhere, someone is putting lyrics to a beat, which will shortly be paying dividends (happy birthday America); somewhere, there are those working in garages who will come up with some technological advent and change our way of living for the better (happy birthday America); this coming fiscal year, much will be tabulated of the donated monies which ended up in the coffers of various charities--more than the GDP of many a country (happy birthday America); and, somewhere in Iraq, Iran, there are people dreaming about the benisons of Democracy (happy birthday America). The author of this blog, with many odds against him, received a GED, joined the United States Army, and used his GI Bill to pay and go to college and then graduate school; in addition, because of the education, he is well read and privy to the freedoms afforded here and he thank God through his Son Jesus Christ that he has the freedom to worship in peace-happy birthday America!

-Verily Prime