1000 Great Things About America-
I decided to start writing down the things that make America great each and every day. I’ve listened long enough to the imbeciles who would have you believe that America is a nation of racists and sexists and is frankly a nation of oppression. It is time to fight back with a little something I like to call the truth!
I considered several ways to do this but thought in the end I would just list things as they came to mind and put them down. I figured you could help as well by sending back replies on things you think make America great. You can say why or just leave it as is.
These are in no particular order but rather just random thoughts about the greatness and exceptionalism that is the United States of America. So here it is my list of 1000 things that make America great!
The Constitution and our experiment in self-government. Unlike anything the world had ever know before it’s been here for about 240 years.
Supermarkets
The Wright Brothers
The Interstate Highway System
Thomas Jefferson- what an inspiration he still is today, flaws and all
The Hoover Dam
Omaha Beach
Daytona Beach
Hot Dogs
Baseball
Steve Jobs
James Madison
Molly Pitcher
Dolly Madison
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Television, inventing it and making it better than anyone
Alexander Graham Bell and his telephone
Nikolai Tesla and his courage to push alternating current or AC over DC
Abraham Lincoln
Yellowstone National Park, created by an act of Congress March 1, 1872. The world’s first national park
John Deere
Harley Davidson
Henry Ford
Elvis Presley
The First Amendment including freedom of speech and religion
Thomas Edison
Saturn V rockets
The Super Bowl
College football, the greatest game ever invented
The Jarvik artificial heart
Liberty Ships
Boeing
La-Z-boy
The 40 hour work week
Montana
Lewis and Clarke
The Grand Canyon
Susan B. Anthony
General Electric
Martin Luther King Jr.
Motown
Henry Ford and his assembly line
Cadillac
Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod
The Johnson Space Center
Ronald Reagan and his enduring spirit
The Great Lakes
Freedom of choice
Dogs
Children
Churches of every size and description and denomination
Firestone
William Tecumseh Sherman
Iwo Jima
Trees and the forests that cover this nation
Wheat, corn, barley and rice
Land grant colleges and universities
SR-71 Blackbird
Moose
Cajun cooking
Jazz music
The Space Shuttle
Kellogg’s
Apple computers plus iPads iPods and iPhones
Clark Gable
The moving picture show- movies
Bifocals
The cracker and the graham cracker- yep both America ideas
Jack Daniels
The suspension bridge
International Harvestor
Harry Ferguson
BB King
Jesse Owens
1980 US Hockey Team
General Dwight David Eisenhower
George Washington
Danny Thomas and St Judes Children’s Hospital
1969 Shelby Cobra GT
The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
The Grand Ole Opry
Graceland
Babe Ruth
Convenience stores
The Ice Cream Cone
Samuel Colt
Hollywood and most of the movies
My wife
Aerosmith
Ray Charles