(Disclaimer:  This is not a political statement or commentary about any current events or controversy.  It is merely an observation, coming from someone who used to run a Genealogy Department in a Library.  That’s all.)

It’s about time Americans took back their country.

Honest to Abraham Lincoln.  If I hear an American say this one more time, I just might have to kick them right in the shin.  Hard.

Okay… I won’t kick anyone.  But here is the thing.   The Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America says… “We the People…..”
Nowhere does it say… “Me the Person Who Owns This Country & Now I Am Taking IT BACK.”

It continues… “This land is your land, this land is my land.  From California to the New York Island…”   (Hang on .  That is a song, by Peter, Paul, and Mary… the Three Apostles…. but it reiterates the point.)  Your Land. My Land.  We. We. We.  All the way home.

Let me remind you… unless you and yours arrived by Spaceship…. OR…  you are one of the very few who are 100% Native American Indian…..  You got here by BOAT… …. …..      FROM ANOTHER DANG COUNTRY.  Seriously.  You were in the sperm and the eggs of your Mom and Dad.. and their Mom and Dads… and their Mom and Dads before.

And somewhere along the line… those Mommies and Daddies bobbed across the Atlantic from England, or Spain, or Germany… and stepped foot onto the (THEN) foreign soil… of the aforementioned land.   And because this is a land of freedom… you and yours eventually become Americans.

Ours.  In Freedom. To express our opinions.  Our voices.

So… I guess it is well within your rights to say out loud… “It’s about time Americans took their country back.”

But it is also in my right to say… “If you think you lost your country… maybe it is time you better head on back to France.”  Or wherever it is you came from.    And we can let the American Indians take their country back.

Happy Fourth of July.  Light a Firecracker.   Be glad this really is YOUR land.  And mine.   Count your Blessings.  America is one of them.

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. ~Abraham Lincoln

There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought. ~Charles Kingsley