It is popular these days to be filled with hate, however, if you are more interested in loving your neighbor than judging your neighbor and loving what is good about your country more than hating mistakes made, read on.
In 244 years, The United States of America has grown and matured in ways that are breathtaking and beautiful. She grew from a handful of colonies on the east coast to span a continent. She matured from colonies that enriched their European over-lords partially by the sweat and blood of African slaves to electing a President born to an African father. She has been a source of unrivaled creativity and entrepreneurship. Her people hale from across the globe and yet she is filled with those who now lovingly call her their native land. Repeatedly it is her citizens who are the first and most generous in rendering aid in times of need, and the most effective of that aid comes from private citizens without government coercion.
Happy birthday land of liberty! May freedom shine even brighter in the years ahead than it has in the years gone by. God Bless America.