I Love America

September 4, 2019 (Wednesday)

Our friend, Olan McCraw, now with the Lord, took busloads of high school seniors to visit Washington, D.C. year after year during his tenure as Mathis School District Superintendent. Many people today have fond memories of those trips and, hopefully, love their country even more because of them.

The Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., has been the site of many gatherings of large numbers of people for various purposes. The memorial is impressive and sits in a prominent location, where the statue of Lincoln looks at the Washington monument and the reflecting pool, the mall and the Capitol.

Lincoln Memorial and Reflecting PoolThe Lincoln Memorial is one of many in our nation’s capital. Many of you have been there and have visited them all, as well as the museums and other places that stir the hearts of visitors. Others have yet to experience this. I hope you will all get to go there.

What are the memorials on or near the mall? There is the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and the Capitol building, all of which we have already mentioned.

There are the White House and the Jefferson Memorial. You can visit the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial, the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial, the National World War II Memorial, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Korean War Veterans Memorial, the Marine Corps War Memorial, the Arlington National Cemetery, a number of museums and other points of interest–enough to keep you busy and interested for a long time.

US Marine War Memorial – ArlingtonWhen people choose to protest by dishonoring memorials, flags, and anthems or anything else that stands as a reverent reminder of our American heritage, they are sadly mistaken and misled. Our country is not perfect, but we have in place decent and honorable ways of expressing dissent and exercising legal options with the same kind of honor held by those whose memorials grace the National Mall. At our Bicentennial Celebration in 1976, we heard a musical entitled, “I Love America.” Everyone who heard it was blessed by it. In the words of that song, I repeat, “I love America,” and I believe the readers of this blog love America too.