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Graduation Speech: I Love America

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I love America. I stand for the pledge of allegiance at school, sing the national anthem at sporting events, and salute our troops and our flag. However, I always found it difficult to find the chauvinism to display the love and passion in America I witness so many others do every day. I would occasionally ask people what it is that makes them American. I would often receive the most sanctimonious and complacent of responses. You live in America and “love” the the country, therefore you are an American. Is that really all it is? Being an American is not love of country, if by “country” you mean “purple mountains majesty” and”amber waves of grain.” Many countries have their own exclusive geological features, rocks, plants, as well as their own
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