I recently watched Miracles, a disney film covering the 1980 winter olympics men’s hockey team for USA, it was a inspirational and moving film about a young group of college boys from all over the America who did not really know each other, trained together for only seven months, and then beat the best team in the world and went on to win the gold medal for hockey. There was something about this movie that helped me remember what it is about America that I love so much, why it is the greatest nation on Earth, and while many seek to destroy it form within and without, America must be saved. America is the only nation in which someone can rise from obscurity to greatness, America offers the right to all people to pursue life, liberty and happiness. America is not perfect, but then again nowhere really is, except for heaven, but that is not here on Earth, America is a place in which you have the power and the right to take ahold of and shape your own future, it is not about your circumstances of birth, but what you choose to do and become with your life that will determine what you accomplish with it. The only person to blame for your circumstances is yourself, which is hard, and reaching greatness in America is not guaranteed, but it is out there for anyone, if they have the courage to reach for it, but it is a fight, it is a struggle, and it takes more hard work and preserverence than many are willing to muster, but success or failure is only up to the individual, and there are starting to be many who do not desire to obtain greatness, but would rather have mediocrity handed to them, and this is causing America’s decline, we are faced with a single choice now as a nation: we must as a people, as individuals and a collective strive for greatness, the concept of American exceptionalism must retake hold in our hearts, we must take responsibility for our own choices and find the strength and courage to overcome them and retake our place as the truly greatest nation on Earth; or we can continue to blame others for our choices and expect an easy hand out and we shall fall into obscurity and be forgotten.