What is/are your uniquely American images?

Uniquely American

In no particular order

The Amish living peacefully in their way
A smoke filled diner on a busy street filled with calloused hands
A tractor trailer passing a VW beetle at 75 in the middle of the night along 95
A USO bus in a hot Florida city windows open
A bicycle all decked out in red white and blue on the fourth with a girl’s large smile
A bum helped in from cold by a child who noticed
Volunteers signing up to help
The patience of visitors to our national treasures hot with child hanging on them in awe of it all
The Salvation Army taking a family lost for a moment and helping them along
A tall church steeple on a dirt road with little sign of anything else
A V8 engine with four barrel and no muffler filled with a bunch of kids looking cool going too fast
A worker staying late to tutor another
Stuckey’s surprise packages promised to the kids to keep them quiet till the next destination
A big MAC, KFC, Dunkin donuts, drive throughs
Cruising a Bob’s Big Boy
Friday dances where you only stood and the girls danced
Revving the engine and racing off the line as the light changes
Corn fields upon corn fields upon corn fields
April 15th

let me stop…

It seems to me that the uniquely American things are the small things that sometimes go unnoticed.

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where the hell do you live...and in what year

Boy, hard question, but my computer tells me October 03, 2007 and while a view out the windows reveals earth and sky, I live in the city of brotherly love.

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are? Satchel Paige

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"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible." Barack Obama

would that be a rose tinted window?

I hope so.

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"We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible." Barack Obama

teen sex clubs ,gay student groups

Quote:

Revving the engine and racing off the line as the light changes

could cause potential damage to public property and under the patriot act could be considered terrorism
instead of wheat Fields so corporations can profit from the green ethanol scam and double the price of wheat

please do.
ill say
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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

Remember, remember, the 11th of september The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.....

This is a tale of two Normans. One poster is channelling Norman Rockwell, the other's channelling Norman Mailer.

I prefer the Rockwell but that's just me

oddly enough so do I..its just I have lived many of the Rockwell scenes and lived to see them systematical perverted and eroded .. along the certainty that my child will know any of them...

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

Remember, remember, the 11th of september The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.....

That's a nice analogy and somewhat true as I wonder if this can be re-written. So I have to think about that for a bit.

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What did your parents do to you?

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People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
-George Orwell

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loved me a lot..most of the usual stuff.. shared with me there insights from a lifetime of foreign travel, military and government service

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"This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." -- Abraham Lincoln, 4 April 1861

Remember, remember, the 11th of september The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I see of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgot.....