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The USA is Not The Greatest Country in the World, But She’s Mine
Contrary to popular belief, the United States of America has never been the greatest Country in the world. Really? That’s sacrilegious and anti-American, Stan. No, it is not either one of those; it is just the unvarnished truth.
Why? First, the United States of America as an entity is six years short of its 250th birthday. Throughout those short 25 decades, the good ole US of A has done many things right and many things wrong, and She takes the good with the bad. From 1783 until 1861, the Nation, built on religious freedom, persecuted the Native Americans who stood in Her way of progress. She imported Africans to work the farms and fields of the South, in slavery. Neither of these historical truths reflects well on Her. But, She did maintain Her dignity as the Country drove itself headlong into four years of hell.
The Civil War or the War of Northern Aggression, as many Southerners still refer to it, saw 600,000+ casualties at places like Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Shiloh, Vicksburg, and Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC. The war’s combatants…
