Op-ed:
On America's 250th Birthday
By; Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor
This opinion piece is my opinion alone, and does not necessarily
represent the views of blogspot.or google.com
First let's get something
straight right upfront, America's 250th Birthday celebration is not
about President Donald Trump contrary to the words off his political
naysayers...for the simple fact is that the man just happens to be
president on our great nation's semiquincentennial birthday. And I believe
President Trump's saying that, “I
think it’s going to be the biggest event we’ve ever had at the
White House,” is
just a plain and simple fact for this birthday, and all the fanfare
that rightfully belongs to it, will show the world that America as a
nation truly still is the greatest and freest nation the world has
ever known.
And while many on both sides
of the political aisle are not happy with our president right now
especially in regards to his handling of the Iranian War...and I
freely admit that I am one of those folks...I must also admit that I
still honor Donald Trump as my president for he has accomplished much
for the betterment of our country, with the closing of our southern
border quickly coming to mind. And here also know that I see
America’s 250th Birthday as being an opportunity to help pull
together what is now our sadly divided nation, that is if we start to
focus on our shared commonalities instead of on what always seems to
be our ever volatile and differing political discourse and opinions.
Our nation's 250 years of
freedom should be a true and joyous celebration of what is our
”Declaration of
Independence” for
on July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress officially severed
the 13 colonies' political ties to Great Britain as well as to King
George III himself, thus seeing our founding principals of freedom
and self governance finally beginning to take hold. And while our new
nation was indeed born from war, to date, no nation in recorded
history has done more to help end war and secure peace than these
United States of America.
And on this very special July
4th, if nothing else, this day should be the very day that we
as Americans...minus any and all hyphens...should
celebrate together...together as the sum of
“We the American People.” Remember,
it's not the president nor any member of any political party who
should take center stage nor
“steal the thunder”
away from the very document that defined not only who we are as a
nation, but clearly stated that “all
men are created equal,”
and have the right to “life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Also,
remember, as fact, that
our nation, even when
bruised at times, has survived intact for 250 years because of those
stated words...and done so no matter who was the president at any
given time or from which party said president belonged to.
However, even with all that I
just stated, we still do, at times, find peace hard to come by...peace not just in the literal cessation of battle itself along with the laying
down of weapons...but in “peace of mind”
in knowing that the war we had just fought was both indeed “noble and just.”
Peace, what is true and lasting peace, is
not always what we thought, dreamed, or hoped it would be especially now as we
exist
in what are truly unstable and volatile times. And it is the very
nature of time itself that
can change the concept of not only how an ongoing political discourse
in relation to garnering peace is perceived, but
in how we understand not just where we came from, but what we as a
nation can become in regards to us...not the UN...seemingly still being the world's
peacekeeping force.
“I
pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America, and to
the Republic for which it stands, one Nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.”
Thirty
one words...one's pledge of loyalty to our beloved America...a
statement meant to unite we Americans together as one people no
matter ones race, creed, color, sex, or religion, yet it's a pledge
that at times, for some, does divide us even more so when it crosses
over into ethnic, and what are religiously deemed moral lines. And
that divide is mostly do to the politics of any given day, as it
seems instead to have divided
our nation even further along and within given party lines.
And
know that the said divide is in no way the fault of the words of nor
the meaning behind the pledge itself, but is the fault of “We
the People” who seem to have forgotten that while political rhetoric does indeed tend
to change both in times of war, and when the party in power changes
hands, some in both the Republican and the Democrat parties seem unwilling to walk away from their deeply, what appears most likely to be, self-indoctrinated hate. The word “bipartisanship”
has truly become a dirty word in regards to today's political
discourse no matter that it is acts of “bipartisanship”
that actually heralds America's successes rather than turning focus
onto what some consider to be her failures.
But
here please know that our beloved America will survive long after
this our nation's 250th birthday, simply because America must
survive...there are no other tangible options available. Why
so...because if what was our “Founders
and Framers”
grand experiment...the experiment that was and thankfully remains the
“United
States of America”...if
it were to fail it would, in my opinion, herald in and leave open the
possible demise of the sum of Western civilization itself on both an
economic and cultural level, thus in turn leaving a vacuum of power
the world has never seen before.
And
now with less than a week to go until our great nation is officially
250 years old, know that it is important that the collective sum of “We
the People”
celebrate her milestone birthday together...together in unity even if
for some it's only to honor the official signing of the
“Declaration of Independence”
and nothing more. And for many others, let's put our political
differences aside for at least this one day, because what has been and
still is our trying to forge a “more
perfect union” does remain an ongoing process. We must continue to learn
from both our past struggles as well as our true and lasting
achievements if we are to remain...as per the words of the great
Ronald Reagan in his “Farewell Address” to the nation, “a
magnet for all who must have freedom.”Happy
250th Birthday my beloved America. May you have many more yet
uncounted years to show the world that America, that American
principles, that American values and ideals, are indeed something to
strive for both now and into the future. Case closed.
Copyright @ 2026 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All Rights Reserved.
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