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Listed below are:
Ninth to Twelfth Grade Program for Public School
and
Ninth to Twelfth Grade Patriotic Program for Non-Public School
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A SALUTE
TO THE
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GREATEST NATION
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IN THE WORLD
THE UNITED STATES
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OF AMERICA
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An
Inspirational and
Motivational Program
To
Teach Our Children
The
True Meaning and
Significance
Of
OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE
PRINCIPLES AND
PATRIOTISM
Ninth to Twelfth Grade
Program
For Public School
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Petty Officer Jim
Cava, United States Navy Retired
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(Forty-five minutes)
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FOREVER
THANKFUL
My fellow Americans
If one - if only one Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American
Made-up of any
one race, color and creed
Has served us!
Has saved us! Has helped us!
Has supported us! Has protected us!
Has suffered for us! And has died
for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
Shouldn't we be forever thankful to Our
Honorable and Brave Patriotic American?
My fellow Americans
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
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Our true American Heroes
Made-up of all
races, colors and creeds
Have served us! Are serving us!
Have saved us! Are saving us! Have helped us! Are helping us!
Have supported us! Are supporting
us! Have protected us! Are protecting
us!
Have suffered for us! Are suffering
for us!
Have sacrificed their precious lives, their
precious loves and possessions for us!
And are sacrificing their precious lives,
their precious loves and possessions for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
The following Patriotic Program is
dedicated
To the hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of:
Our Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
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Our true American Heroes
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My fellow Americans
At this time,
United-As-One, we shall reaffirm
The greatness
of our country, the United States of America!
And the greatness
that lives within each and every one of us!
To begin our patriotic
program, please stand as
together
United-As-One
We pledge allegiance to our country:
The United States of
America
My fellow Americans
Please look at our
flag and place your hands on your
hearts?
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
TO THE FLAG
THE PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
I pledge allegiance
To the Flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible
With liberty and justice for all
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That which is not
loved - withers and dies!
Patriotism is
love, support and defense of one's country.
American
Patriotism is love
for the Americans who founded our country
And the
undeniable principles for which she stands:
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HONOR
¶
To Be Good
¶ LIBERTY
¶
To Be Free
¶
EQUALITY
¶
To Be One
¶ JUSTICE
¶
To Be Fair
¶ HUMANITY
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To Be Kind
American
Patriotism is love
for the Americans who
respect
our principles
And
love
for the Americans who
defend
our country.
American
Patriotism is loyal support
for our very American principles.
And American
Patriotism is defense
of our country:
THE UNITED STATES
OF AMERICA
American Patriotism
was the Honorable Spirit of our forefathers
Based upon an absolute
moral belief in basic human rights
Upheld and defended
with invincible determination
That forged a great
nation, our nation.
It is that same spirit
that remains the
lifeblood
of our country
And it comes from the
heart and
soul of a
true American.
A principle is a
fundamental truth
A guide for good
behavior by which one directs one’s life.
Our American
Principles and Values are one and the same.
Our American
Principles show us the way:
To do - What is
Right!
To be - A Person of
Good Character!
And
To be - All That We Can Be
by Learning and Respecting!
Our American
Principles and Honorable Americans are what make our country
great.
Our American
Principles and Honorable Americans are the foundation of American Patriotism.
It is of utmost
importance to disassociate the Honorable Principles America
stands-for
from the
dishonorable and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.
For the Honorable
Principles America stands-for have absolutely nothing to do
with the
dishonorable and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all people
are created equal
That all people
are made the same
With a Heart!
And a Soul!
With a Body!
And a Mind!
That no one is
better than you are
That you are no
better then someone else
That it is wrong to bully someone else
That it is wrong
to make-fun-of someone else
That all people
are endowed by their Creator
With certain
unalienable, natural, rights
That among these
natural rights are:
¶ LIFE
¶
The right for all
people to Live
¶ LIBERTY
¶
The right for all
people to be Free
¶ And the
pursuit of HAPPINESS
¶
The right for all
people to be Happy
And we do
want to be Happy - Don't we?
Of course
we do!
Give
yourselves a big heartfelt
round of
applause!
With the
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Our forefathers
proclaimed to the whole world their faithful trust
In the fundamental
rights of all people
And a new and free
nation was born, our country:
The United States of
America
The
CONSTITUTION of our
country
The basic instrument
of our government
And the supreme law of
our land
Founded upon the
essential rights of all people
Is the embodiment of
democratic principles
With the promise that
those essential rights
Will be respected
and protected.
To quote our
Sixteenth President
This is what that great man said to us in his famous Gettysburg
Address
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania - November 19, 1863
“And that
government
Of the people
By the people
For the people
Shall not perish
from the earth.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President (1861-1865)
Let's hear it for:
Our Sixteenth President
- Abraham Lincoln
The United States is:
The land of the
free and the home of the brave
And truly the greatest
nation in the world.
♪ WE HONOR YOU
AMERICA
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American Patriotism is respect-for that which is
Right:
Respect-for
that which is:
Correct! Proper!
Decent! Honest! And True!
Respect is a most
meaningful part of life.
To
respect someone or something means:
To think of someone or something as - Honorable!
To think of someone or something as - Very Important!
And To give
that someone or something - Special Attention!
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
Our Creator
Our
country - The United States of America
And
the symbol of her glory and all that she stands-for,
our flag - The Star Spangled Banner
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
Your Loving Parents
Your Devoted Principal and Teachers
Let's hear it for:
Your Loving Parents
Your Devoted Principal and Teachers
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
Commendable Veterans
Dedicated Police Officers and Fire Fighters
Dependable First Aid and Ambulance Personnel
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
The Mentally and Physically Challenged
Younger Americans and Senior Citizens
Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
Yourself by being - A Person of Good Character!
American Patriotism
is realizing:
You are the highest of
all creation!
“A-Number-One”
Made perfectly!
With a Heart! And a
Soul!
With a Body! And a
Mind!
American Patriotism
is realizing:
You possess the
greatest treasure on earth
“The
Gift-of-Life”
Born exquisitely!
With
Virtue! Intelligence!
And
Potentiality! - Your very own Exceptional Power!
American Patriotism
is realizing:
You are a Person!
- A Human Being!
You
are Somebody! You are Special!
You are Important!
You are Great! You are an American!
American Patriotism
is believing: In your country and in yourself!
Being-responsible-for: The things you say and do!
Being-thankful-for: Who you are!
And Taking-hold-of: Your power!
American Patriotism
is Trying-your-best:
To do - What is
Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
To be - All That
You Can Be by Learning and Respecting?
To see - Your
American Dream come true!
And To
feel - A sense of Pride in your Country and in Yourself!
American Patriotism is realizing:
Smoking cigarettes will damage -
Your Healthful Life!
Drinking alcohol will devitalize -
Your Powerful Life!
Using violence will destroy -
Precious Life!
Taking drugs will devastate:
Your Healthful Life! Your Powerful Life! Your Precious Life!
Your Only Life!
My fellow Americans
American Patriotism
and values are one in the same.
American Patriotism
is a moral code of conduct - an unmistakable way to build
character.
American Patriotism
in all actuality is a lifestyle of values - a good and
worthwhile way of living.
To quote our First President:
A great leader,
soldier, statesman and
father of our country
This
is what that great man said to us.
“Let
us raise a standard
to which the wise and honest can repair;
the rest is in the hands of God.”
~ George Washington, First President (1789-1797)
Let's hear it for:
Our First President
and the father of our
country - George Washington
So be a patriot
Help renew patriotism and
Increase
Americanism
as
a
Patriot
In you, in every one of you lie: America's future!
¶ America’s destiny!
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AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
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My fellow Americans
We shall
never, never, never forget
Our many Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American men and women
Our true American Patriots
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Our true
American Heroes
Made-up of all races, colors and creeds
Who
have given
and who are giving
unselfishly of themselves in service to our country!
To save
us!
To help
us! To support us! And To protect us!
To protect
our basic rights and the basic rights of all people!
And To
defend our country and the principles she stands-for!
To all who
have bravely served
and to all who are bravely
serving our country with honor!
We are eternally
indebted to them and we shall forever hold their patriotism in
esteem.
Would the
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
present here today who have served
or who are serving:
Our country in The Armed Forces
and/or the Public Safety of the United States, please come
forward?
My fellow patriots as
you present yourself, please state:
Your name - your rank
and your branch and/or department of service
as I do:
Jim Cava, Petty
Officer Third Class, United States Navy Retired
Standing before us
are no ordinary Americans - They are special Americans.
They are special
Americans:
Because they
have bravely served
(and are bravely serving)
our country with honor!
They are special
Americans:
Because they
have given (and are giving)
unselfishly of themselves in service to our country!
They are special
Americans:
Because without
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans like
them our great
country would not exist!
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots
¶ To our
true American Heroes
With a big
heartfelt
round of applause
My fellow Americans /
My fellow Patriots / My fellow Veterans
We all thank you for
your love, support and defense
of our
country:
The United States of
America
Let us now show our
respect
To all our true
American Patriots
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To all our true American Heroes
Not professional
baseball players - football players - hockey players - tennis
players
Basketball players -
golfers - not boxers and wrestlers - not movie stars - not rock
stars
But our true American
Hero’s
Who
have bravely served and who are bravely serving
our country
In the Armed Forces
and the Public Safety of the United States
With a big
heartfelt round of
applause after I sound off each branch and department:
Let's hear it for:
The United States Navy
♪ Anchors Aweigh
The United States Marine Corps ♪ The Marines Hymn
The United States Army ♪ The Caissons Go Rolling Along
The United States Air Force
♪ The U.S. Air Force
The United States Coast Guard ♪ Semper Paratus
The United States Merchant Marines
The Army National Guard
The Air National Guard
The Police Department of The United
States
The Fire Department of the United
States
The First Aid and Ambulance Corps of
The United States
To all the Americans who risk their
lives everyday for our country
And to all
truehearted
Americans
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Loyal and
selfless
Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic
Vietnam Veteran
answered the call-of-duty
And defended
the unalienable rights to:
Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness
For the good people of
South Vietnam
When Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans returned
home
There was - No welcome home.
Undesirable - unpatriotic - unappreciative citizens
Dishonorably displayed their indifference
And with total disrespect
Our
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic
Vietnam Veteran was
cursed-at and spit-upon…
Are there
Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veterans present, please stand?
(Are there family
members of
Honorable and
Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veterans present
Please stand in respectful representation?)
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HONORABLE
AND BRAVE
PATRIOTIC VIETNAM VETERAN
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Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veteran
Your character is
irreproachable and your valor uncommon
You are the
quintessential Soldier, Sailor, Airman/woman and Marine of Liberty and
Justice.
My fellow Americans
Let us show our respect to Our
Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veteran
To our true American Patriot
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To our true American Hero
With a big
heartfelt round of applause
♪ GOD
BLESS THE U.S.A.
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And now a tribute:
To Our Honorable and Courageous Patriotic American Woman
She has served and continues to serve our country
with steadfast devotion
Not only in the Armed Forces and Public Safety of the United
States but also in civilian life.
Through her
bounty of abiding strength and gentle courage
She has mothered
and safeguarded:
Honor
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Liberty
¶
Equality
¶
Justice
¶
And most assuredly
Humanity
Are there Honorable
and Courageous
Patriotic Women
present who have served or who are serving:
Our country in The Armed Forces and/or
the Public Safety of the United States, please stand or raise your
hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots
¶
To our unsung American Heroines
With a big
heartfelt
round of applause
There is no greater
suffering
-
no greater loss, than for a mother to lose her child in
service to our country.
Let us show our
respect
To our sublime American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
Such great
suffering
- such
great loss, for a wife to lose her husband in service to
our country.
Let us show our
respect
To our superb American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
Would all Our Honorable Women
present who have worked or who are working-in:
Our Public Education, Our
Public Service, Our Ladies Auxiliary, Our American Red Cross, Our
USO
Our Special
Services, Our Defense Department and/or Our Defense Plants, please
stand or raise your hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
Would all Our Honorable:
Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives, Aunts, Nieces - Girlfriends
Of American Servicemen
and/or Public Safety Personnel, please stand or raise your hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
To all Our Honorable
and Courageous - Gracious and Incomparable Patriotic American
Women
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank God for you!
We could not have made it
without you.
And we will never ever
make it without you.
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Thousands upon
thousands of:
Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic
American
Prisoners-of-War served our country with honor
Many have suffered,
many are suffering
And many have died mercilessly at the hands of
the enemy
And many never came
home, never came home - We are home.
They shall
never-be-forgotten.
Are there
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Former American Prisoners-of-War present,
please stand?
(Are there family
members of Honorable and
Brave Patriotic
American Prisoners-of-War present
Please stand in respectful representation?)
The suffering
Our Honorable
and Brave Patriotic American Prisoners-of-War endured
In service to our
country is beyond human comprehension.
They are truly
extraordinary Americans.
Let us show our
respect
To our extraordinary
American Patriots
¶ To our
extraordinary American Heroes
With a big
heartfelt round of
applause.
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The greatest treasure we possess is:
“The Gift-of-Life”
There is no greater love in the
entire universe
than for An
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American
to lay down his or her precious life
So
that we could live
“The Very Best Life Possible”
My fellow Americans
Please stand
At this time let us show our
respect
- let us pay homage
To Our many Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who
sacrificed:
Their precious lives, their
precious
loves and possessions
for our country, for us, in the line-of-duty!
To save us!
To help us! To support us! And To
protect us!
To protect our basic rights and the
basic rights of all people!
And To defend our
country and the principles for which she stands!
To quote our
Sixteenth President
This is what that great man said to us in his famous Gettysburg
Address
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania - November 19, 1863
“That from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of
devotion.
That we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President (1861-1865)
My fellow Americans
Please place your
hands on your hearts
for the singing of:
♪ TAPS
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We are One Family!
We are a Good Family! We are a Great
Family!
We are:
“The American Family.”
United-As-One
Let us love, support and defend
Our Good Country
and Our Good Brothers and Sisters
As together we sing:
♪ GOD BLESS AMERICA
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All that
Our Creator
Our Good Country
Your Loving Parents
Your Devoted Principal and Teachers
Ask of you is that you
Try-your-best:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
And
To be - All That You Can Be
by Learning and Respecting!
This is all that you can ask of yourself.
You are a
Person!
You are Somebody!
You are Special!
You are
Important!
You are Great!
You are an American!
You can make your
very own Special Dream
come true!
♪ CLIMB EVERY
MOUNTAIN
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Realizing:
That you are the highest of all creation
“A-Number-One”
Made perfectly!
With a Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
That you possess
the greatest treasure on earth
“The Gift-of-Life”
Born
exquisitely!
With Virtue! Intelligence!
And Potentiality! - Your very own
Exceptional Power!
That you are a
Person!
That you are
Somebody!
That you are Special!
That you are
Important! That you are Great!
That you are an American!
I would like to
ask you four important questions:
w Are you
willing to respect
your Creator?
w Are you
willing to respect
your country and the
undeniable principles she stands-for?
w Are you
willing to respect
yourself by:
Trying-your-best
To do - What is Right?
To be - A Person of Good Character?
And To be -
All That You Can Be by
Learning and Respecting?
w And Are you
willing to give your
Word-of-Honor
by taking:
The American Patriot Pledge?
Those who are
willing to take this very special pledge, please stand?
Realizing:
That you are the highest of all creation
“A-Number-One”
made perfectly!
That you possess
the greatest treasure on earth
“The Gift-of-Life”
born exquisitely!
And that you are
part of a great family:
“Our American Family”
Should give you a
most wonderful feeling deep inside.
I would like you
to express that wonderful feeling by saying your first and last
name out loud!
Please say your
first and last name out loud - right now!
Now please repeat after me: Where
I say my name - you say your name.
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¶
THE AMERICAN PATRIOT PLEDGE
¶
I
_____________________________________,
do hereby pledge
To be an American
Patriot
To love, support and defend
my Good Country and
my Good Brothers and Sisters
To be a
Good Citizen
and
to respect that which is
Right:
To respect
that which is:
Correct! Proper! Decent!
Honest! And True!
To respect:
My Creator
My Country - The
United States of America
HONOR
- To be Good
¶
LIBERTY
- To be Free
EQUALITY
- To be One
¶
JUSTICE -
To be Fair
¶ HUMANITY
- To be Kind
And the symbol of
her glory and all that she stands-for, my flag - The Star
Spangled Banner
To respect:
My Loving Parents
My Devoted
Principal and Teachers
Commendable
Veterans
Dedicated Police
Officers and Fire Fighters
Dependable First
Aid and Ambulance Personnel
To respect:
The Mentally and Physically Challenged
Younger Americans and Senior Citizens
Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers
To respect:
Myself by being -
A Person of Good Character!
To realize:
That
all people
are created equal - That all
people are
made the same
With
a Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
That no one is
better than I am / That I am no better then someone else
That it is wrong
to bully someone else / That it is wrong to make-fun-of someone
else
To realize:
That
all people
are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable, natural, rights
That among these
natural rights are:
LIFE - The right
for all people
to Live
LIBERTY - The right for all people
to be Free
And the pursuit of
HAPPINESS - The right for all
people to be
Happy
To realize:
I am the highest of all creation
“A-Number-One”
made
perfectly!
With a Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
To realize:
I possess the
greatest treasure on earth “The
Gift-of-Life”
born exquisitely!
With
Virtue! Intelligence!
And
Potentiality!
- My very own
Exceptional
Power!
To realize:
I am a
Person!
I am
Somebody!
I am
Special!
I am
Important! I
am
Great!
I am an
American!
To believe: In my Country and
Myself!
To be-responsible-for: The things I
say and do!
To be-thankful-for: Who I am!
And To take-hold-of: My power!
To try-my-best:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good
Character!
To be - All
That I Can Be by Learning and Respecting?
To see - My American Dream come
true!
And To
feel - Pride in my Country and in Myself!
To realize:
Smoking
cigarettes will damage - My Healthful Life!
Drinking alcohol will devitalize -
My Powerful Life!
Using
violence will destroy -
Precious
Life!
Taking drugs will devastate:
My Healthful Life! My Powerful
Life! My Precious Life! My
Only Life!
And this I pledge with all my
Heart.
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Today is truly
a special day
Because today you have learned:
Why our country, the United States of America, is great!
And why you are great!
And because today you have pledged with your loving
hearts:
To do - What is
Right!
To be
- A Person of Good Character!
And
To be - All That You Can Be
by Learning and Respecting!
With all my
heart:
I congratulate you! I thank you! And I salute you!
And you have to be special for me to salute you.
And you are Special!
Now, I would like you to tell yourselves and the whole world
that you are great!
Please repeat after me:
I
AM GREAT!
I AM GREAT!
I AM GREAT!
Yes, you are great!
Please do not forget that.
And please do not
forget this:
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
¶
Our true American Heroes
Made-up of all
races, colors and creeds
Have served us! Are serving us!
Have saved us! Are saving us! Have helped us! Are helping us!
Have supported us! Are supporting us! Have protected us! Are protecting us!
Have suffered for us! Are suffering for
us!
Have sacrificed their precious lives, their
precious loves
and possessions for us!
And Are sacrificing their
precious lives, their
precious loves and possessions for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
Let us always be
thankful to Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans
And let us always try
to live what Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American
Heroes
Have served for!
Have suffered for! And have died for!
My fellow Americans
This ends our
patriotic program
Give yourselves a big
heartfelt
round of applause.
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Petty Officer Jim Cava
United States Navy Retired
“The Patriotic Voice
of America”
Corpsman / 5th Marines, Vietnam
1968
E-mail:
uspatriot1@optonline.net
Telephone: Land 973w427w3871
/ Cell 973w454w9277
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FOR OUR CREATOR AND COUNTRY
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MAY OUR CREATOR BLESS AMERICA
American Patriotism
breeds:
Courage
¶
Friendship
¶
Loyalty
¶
Morality
¶
Responsibility
¶
Strength
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respectfully accepted.
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A SALUTE
TO THE
¶
GREATEST NATION
¶
IN THE WORLD
THE UNITED STATES
¶
OF AMERICA
¶
ONE NATION UNDER GOD
An
Inspirational and
Motivational Program
To
Teach Our Children
The
True Meaning and
Significance
Of
OUR AMERICAN HERITAGE
PRINCIPLES AND PATRIOTISM
Ninth to Twelfth Grade
Program
For Non-Public School
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Petty Officer Jim Cava,
United States Navy Retired
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(Forty-five minutes)
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FOREVER
THANKFUL
My fellow Americans
If one - if only one
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American
Made-up of any
one race, color and creed
Has served us!
Has saved us! Has helped us!
Has supported us! Has protected us!
Has suffered for us! And has died
for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
Shouldn't we be forever thankful to Our
Honorable and Brave Patriotic American?
My fellow Americans
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
¶
Our true American Heroes
Made-up of all
races, colors and creeds
Have served us! Are serving us!
Have saved us! Are saving us! Have helped us! Are helping us!
Have supported us! Are supporting us! Have protected us! Are protecting us!
Have suffered for us! Are suffering for
us!
Have sacrificed their
precious lives, their
precious loves
and possessions for us!
And are sacrificing their
precious lives, their
precious
loves and possessions for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
The following Patriotic Program is
dedicated
To the hundreds and hundreds of
thousands of:
Our Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
¶
Our true American Heroes
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My fellow Americans
At this time,
United-As-One, we shall reaffirm
The greatness
of our country, the United States of America!
And the greatness
that lives within each and every one of us!
To begin our patriotic
program, please stand as
together
United-As-One
We pledge allegiance to our country:
The United States of
America
My fellow Americans
Please look at our
flag and place your hands on your
hearts?
PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE
TO THE FLAG
THE PLEDGE OF
ALLEGIANCE
I pledge allegiance
To the Flag
Of the United States of America
And to the Republic
For which it stands
One nation under God
Indivisible
With liberty and justice for all
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That which is not
loved - withers and dies!
Patriotism is
love, support and defense of one's country.
American Patriotism
is love
for the Americans who founded our country
And the undeniable
principles for which she stands:
¶
HONOR
¶
To Be Good
¶
LIBERTY
¶
To Be Free
¶
EQUALITY
¶
To Be One
¶
JUSTICE
¶
To Be Fair
¶
HUMANITY
¶
To Be Kind
American Patriotism
is love
for the Americans who
respect
our principles
And
love
for the Americans who
defend
our country.
American Patriotism
is loyal support
for our very American principles.
And American
Patriotism is defense
of our country:
THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA
American Patriotism was
the Honorable Spirit of our forefathers
Based upon an absolute
moral belief in basic human rights
Upheld and defended with
invincible determination
That forged a great
nation, our nation.
It is that same spirit
that remains the
lifeblood
of our country
And it comes from the
heart and soul
of a true American.
A principle is a
fundamental truth
A guide for good behavior
by which one directs one’s life.
Our American Principles
and Values are one and the same.
Our American Principles
show us the way:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good
Character!
And
To be - All That We Can Be by Learning and Respecting!
Our American Principles
and Honorable Americans are what make our country great.
Our American Principles
and Honorable Americans are the foundation of American Patriotism.
It is of utmost
importance to
disassociate the Honorable Principles America stands-for
from the dishonorable
and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.
For the Honorable
Principles America stands-for have absolutely nothing to do
with the dishonorable
and unprincipled behavior of some Americans.
We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all people
are created equal
That all people
are made the same
With a Heart! And a
Soul!
With a Body! And a
Mind!
That no one is better than
you are
That you are no better
then someone else
That
it is wrong to bully someone else
That it is wrong to
make-fun-of someone else
That all people
are endowed by their Creator
With certain
unalienable, natural, rights
That among these natural
rights are:
¶
LIFE
¶
The right for all people
to Live
¶
LIBERTY
¶
The right for all people
to be Free
¶
And the pursuit of HAPPINESS
¶
The right for all people
to be Happy
And we do
want to be Happy - Don't we?
Of course
we do!
Give
yourselves a big heartfelt
round of
applause!
With the
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Our forefathers proclaimed
to the whole world their faithful trust
In the God given fundamental rights
of all people
And a new and free
nation was born, our country:
The United States of
America
The
CONSTITUTION of our
country
The basic instrument of
our government
And the supreme law of our
land
Founded upon the essential
rights of all people
Is the embodiment of
democratic principles
With the promise that
those essential rights
Will be respected and
protected.
To
quote our Sixteenth
President
This
is what that great man said to us in his famous Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania - November 19, 1863
“And that government
Of the people
By the people
For the people
Shall not perish from the
earth.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President (1861-1865)
Let's hear it for:
Our
Sixteenth President
- Abraham Lincoln
The United States is:
The land of the free
and the home of the brave
And truly the greatest
nation in the world.
♪ WE HONOR YOU
AMERICA
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American Patriotism is respect-for that which is
Right:
Respect-for
that which is:
Correct! Proper! Decent!
Honest! And True!
Respect is a most
meaningful part of life.
To
respect someone or something means:
To think of someone or something as - Honorable!
To think of someone or something as - Very Important!
And To give
that someone or something - Special Attention!
American Patriotism is
respect-for:
Almighty God
Our
country - The United States of America
And
the symbol of her glory and all that she stands-for,
our flag - The Star Spangled Banner
American Patriotism is
respect-for:
Your
Loving Parents
Your
Devoted Principal and Teachers
Let's hear it for:
Your
Loving Parents and Your Devoted Principal and Teachers
American Patriotism is
respect-for:
Commendable Veterans
Dedicated Police Officers and Fire Fighters
Dependable First Aid and Ambulance Personnel
American Patriotism is
respect-for:
The
Mentally and Physically Challenged
Younger Americans and Senior Citizens
Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers
American Patriotism
is respect-for:
Yourself by being - A Person of Good Character!
American Patriotism
is realizing:
You are the highest of
God's Creation!
“A-Number-One”
Made perfectly!
With a Heart! And a
Soul!
With a Body! And a
Mind!
American Patriotism
is realizing:
You possess the greatest
treasure on earth
“The
Gift-of-Life”
Born exquisitely!
With Virtue!
Intelligence!
And
Potentiality! - Your very own Exceptional Power!
American Patriotism is
realizing:
You are a Person!
You
are Somebody! You are Special!
You are Important!
You are Great! You are an American!
American Patriotism is
believing: In your country and in yourself!
Being-responsible-for: The things you say and do!
Being-thankful-for: Who you are!
And Taking-hold-of: Your power!
American Patriotism is
Trying-your-best:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
To be - All That You
Can Be by Learning and Respecting?
To see - Your American
Dream come true!
And To
feel - Pride in your Country and in Yourself!
American Patriotism is realizing:
Smoking cigarettes will damage -
Your Healthful Life!
Drinking alcohol will devitalize -
Your Powerful Life!
Using violence will destroy -
Precious Life!
Taking drugs will devastate:
Your Healthful Life! Your Powerful Life! Your Precious Life! Your
Only Life!
My fellow Americans
American Patriotism and
values are one in the same.
American Patriotism is
a moral code of conduct - an unmistakable way to build character.
American Patriotism in
all actuality is a lifestyle of values - a good and worthwhile way
of living.
To
quote our First President:
A great leader, soldier,
statesman and father of our
country
“Let
us raise a standard
to which the wise and honest can repair;
the rest is in the hands of God.”
~ George Washington, First President (1789-1797)
Let's hear it for:
Our
First President and
the father of our country -
George Washington
So
be a patriot
Help
renew patriotism and
Increase
Americanism
as
a
Patriot
In
you, in every one of you lie: America's future!
¶ America’s destiny!
♪
AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL
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My fellow Americans
We shall
never, never, never forget
Our many Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American men and women
Our true American Patriots
¶
Our true
American Heroes
Made-up of all races, colors and creeds
Who
have given
and who are giving
unselfishly of themselves in service to our country!
To save
us!
To help
us! To support us! And To protect us!
To protect
our basic rights and the basic rights of all people!
And To
defend our country and the principles she stands-for!
To all who
have bravely served
and to all who are bravely
serving our country with honor!
We are eternally
indebted to them and we shall forever hold their patriotism in
esteem.
Would the
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
present here today who have served
or who are serving:
Our country in The Armed Forces
and/or the Public Safety of the United States, please come
forward?
My fellow patriots as
you present yourself, please state:
Your name - your rank
and your branch and/or department of service
as I do:
Jim Cava, Petty
Officer Third Class, United States Navy Retired
Standing before us
are no ordinary Americans - They are special Americans.
They are special
Americans:
Because they
have bravely served
(and are bravely serving)
our country with honor!
They are special
Americans:
Because they
have given (and are giving)
unselfishly of themselves in service to our country!
They are special
Americans:
Because without
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans like
them our great
country would not exist!
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots
¶ To our
true American Heroes
With a big
heartfelt
round of applause
My fellow Americans /
My fellow Patriots
We all thank you for
your love, support and defense
of our
country:
The United States of
America
Let us now show our
respect
To all our true
American Patriots
¶
To all our true American Heroes
Not professional
baseball players - football players - hockey players - tennis
players
Basketball players -
golfers - not boxers and wrestlers - not movie stars - not rock
stars
But our true American
Hero’s
Who
have bravely served and who are bravely serving
our country
In the Armed Forces
and the Public Safety of the United States
With a big
heartfelt round of
applause after I sound off each branch and department:
Let's hear it for:
The United States Navy
♪ Anchors Aweigh
The United States Marine Corps ♪ The Marines Hymn
The United States Army ♪ The Caissons Go Rolling Along
The United States Air Force
♪ The U.S. Air Force
The United States Coast Guard ♪ Semper Paratus
The United States Merchant Marines
The Army National Guard
The Air National Guard
The Police Department of The United
States
The Fire Department of the United
States
The First Aid and Ambulance Corps of
The United States
To all the Americans who risk their
lives everyday for our country
And to all
truehearted
Americans
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Loyal and
selfless
Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic
Vietnam Veteran
answered the call-of-duty
And defended
the unalienable rights to:
Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness
For the good people of
South Vietnam
When Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans returned
home
There was - No welcome home.
Undesirable - unpatriotic - unappreciative citizens
Dishonorably displayed their indifference
And with total disrespect
Our
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic
Vietnam Veteran was
cursed-at and spit-upon…
Are there
Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veterans present, please stand?
(Are there family
members of
Honorable and
Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veterans present
Please stand in respectful representation?)
¶
HONORABLE
AND BRAVE
PATRIOTIC VIETNAM VETERAN
¶
Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veteran
Your character is
irreproachable and your valor uncommon
You are the
quintessential Soldier, Sailor, Airman/woman and Marine of Liberty and
Justice.
My fellow Americans
Let us show our respect to Our
Honorable
and Brave
Patriotic Vietnam Veteran
To our true American Patriot
¶
To our true American Hero
With a big
heartfelt round of applause
♪ GOD
BLESS THE U.S.A.
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And now a tribute:
To Our Honorable and Courageous Patriotic American Woman
She has served and continues to serve our country
with steadfast devotion
Not only in the Armed Forces and Public Safety of the United
States but also in civilian life.
Through her
bounty of abiding strength and gentle courage
She has mothered
and safeguarded:
Honor
¶
Liberty
¶ Equality
¶ Justice
¶ And most assuredly
Humanity
Are there Honorable
and Courageous
Patriotic Women present who have served or who are
serving:
Our country in The
Armed Forces and/or the Public Safety of the United States,
please stand or raise your hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots
¶ To our unsung
American Heroines
With a big
heartfelt
round of applause
There is no greater
suffering - no greater loss, than for a mother to lose
her child in service to our country.
Let us show our
respect
To our sublime
American Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
Such great
suffering - such great loss, for a wife to lose her
husband in service to our country.
Let us show our
respect
To our superb American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt round of
applause
Would all Our
Honorable Women present who have worked or who are
working-in:
Our Public Education,
Our Public Service, Our Ladies Auxiliary, Our American Red
Cross, Our USO
Our Special Services,
Our Defense Department and/or Our Defense Plants, please stand
or raise your hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt
round of applause
Would all Our
Honorable: Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Wives, Aunts, Nieces -
Girlfriends
Of American Servicemen
and/or Public Safety Personnel, please stand or raise your hand?
Let us show our
respect
To our true American
Patriots with a big
heartfelt round of applause
To all Our
Honorable and Courageous - Gracious and Incomparable
Patriotic American Women
Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank God for you!
We could not have made
it without you.
And we will never ever
make it without you.
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Thousands upon
thousands of:
Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic
American
Prisoners-of-War served our country with honor
Many have suffered,
many are suffering
And many have died mercilessly at the hands of
the enemy
And many never came
home, never came home - We are home.
They shall
never-be-forgotten.
Are there
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Former American Prisoners-of-War present,
please stand?
(Are there family
members of Honorable and
Brave Patriotic
American Prisoners-of-War present
Please stand in respectful representation?)
The suffering
Our Honorable
and Brave Patriotic American Prisoners-of-War endured
In service to our
country is beyond human comprehension.
They are truly
extraordinary Americans.
Let us show our
respect
To our extraordinary
American Patriots
¶ To our
extraordinary American Heroes
With a big
heartfelt round of
applause.
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The greatest treasure we possess is:
“The Gift-of-Life”
There is no greater love in the
entire universe
than for An
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic American
to lay down his or her precious life
So
that we could live
“The Very Best Life Possible”
My fellow Americans
Please stand
At
this time let us show our
respect
- let us pay homage
To
Our many Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans who
sacrificed:
Their precious lives, their
precious
loves and possessions
for our country, for us, in the line-of-duty!
To save us!
To help us! To support us! And To
protect us!
To protect our basic rights and the
basic rights of all people!
And To defend our country
and the principles for which she stands!
Let us pray:
Most
Righteous and Almighty Creator
In Thy Perfect Love, In Thy Perfect Strength and in Thy Perfect
Care
Protect from
all harm we pray
The most
precious and most honorable souls of our departed:
Fathers and
Mothers
¶
Sons and
Daughters
¶
Husbands and Wives
Brothers and
Sisters
¶
Uncles
and Aunts
¶
Nieces and Nephews
¶
Relatives and Friends
Now and
Forever, Amen
To
quote our Sixteenth
President
This
is what that great man said to us in his famous Gettysburg Address
Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania - November 19, 1863
“That from these honored dead we take increased devotion
to
that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
That
we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain.”
~ Abraham Lincoln, Sixteenth President (1861-1865)
My fellow Americans
Please place your hands on your
hearts
for the singing of:
♪
TAPS
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We are One Family!
We are a Good Family! We are a Great
Family!
We are:
“The American Family.”
United-As-One
Let us love, support and defend
Our Good Country and
Our Good Brothers and Sisters
As together we sing:
♪ GOD BLESS AMERICA
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All
that
Almighty God
Our
Good Country
Your Loving Parents
Your Devoted Principal and Teachers
Ask
of you is that you
Try-your-best:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
And
To be - All That You Can Be by Learning and Respecting!
This is all that you can ask of yourself.
You are a
Person!
You are Somebody!
You are Special!
You are
Important!
You are Great!
You are an American!
You can make your
very own Special Dream
come true!
♪ CLIMB EVERY
MOUNTAIN
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Realizing:
That you are the highest of God's Creation
“A-Number-One”
Made perfectly!
With a Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
That you possess the
greatest treasure on earth
“The Gift-of-Life”
Born exquisitely!
With Virtue! Intelligence!
And Potentiality! - Your very own
Exceptional Power!
That you are a
Person!
That you are
Somebody!
That you are Special!
That you are
Important! That you are Great!
That you are an American!
I would like to ask
you four important questions:
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Are you willing to respect
Almighty God?
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Are you willing to respect
your country and the
undeniable principles she stands-for?
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Are you willing to respect
yourself by:
Trying-your-best
To do - What is Right?
To be - A Person of Good Character?
And To be -
All That You Can Be by Learning
and Respecting?
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And Are you willing to give your
Word-of-Honor by
taking: The American Patriot Pledge?
Those who are willing
to take this very special pledge, please stand?
Realizing:
That you are the highest of God's Creation
“A-Number-One”
made perfectly!
That you possess the
greatest treasure on earth “The
Gift-of-Life” born
exquisitely!
And that you are part
of a great family:
“Our American Family”
Should give you a
most wonderful feeling deep inside.
I would like you to
express that wonderful feeling by saying your first and last name
out loud!
Please say your first
and last name out loud - right now!
Now please repeat after me: Where I
say my name - you say your name.
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¶ THE AMERICAN PATRIOT PLEDGE
¶
I
_____________________________________,
do hereby pledge
To be an American
Patriot
To love, support and defend
my Good Country and my
Good Brothers and Sisters
To be a
Good Citizen
and
to respect that which is
Right:
To respect
that which is:
Correct! Proper! Decent! Honest!
And True!
To respect:
Almighty God
My country - The
United States of America
HONOR
- To be Good
¶
LIBERTY
- To be Free
EQUALITY
- To be One
¶
JUSTICE -
To be Fair
¶ HUMANITY
- To be Kind
And the symbol of her
glory and all that she stands-for, my flag - The Star Spangled
Banner
To respect:
My Loving Parents
My Devoted Principal
and Teachers
Commendable Veterans
Dedicated Police
Officers and Fire Fighters
Dependable First Aid
and Ambulance Personnel
To respect:
The
Mentally and Physically Challenged
Younger Americans and Senior Citizens
Honest Workers and Selfless Volunteers
To respect:
Myself by being -
A Person of Good Character!
To realize:
That
all people
are created equal - That all people
are made the same
With a
Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
That no one is better
than I am / That I am no better then someone else
That it is wrong to
bully someone else / That it is wrong to make-fun-of someone else
To realize:
That
all people
are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable, natural, rights
That among these
natural rights are:
LIFE - The right for
all people
to Live
LIBERTY - The right for all people
to be Free
And the pursuit of
HAPPINESS - The right for all people
to be Happy
To realize:
I
am the highest of all creation
“A-Number-One”
made
perfectly!
With a Heart! And a Soul!
With a Body! And a Mind!
To realize:
I possess the
greatest treasure on earth “The
Gift-of-Life”
born exquisitely!
With
Virtue! Intelligence!
And
Potentiality!
- My
very own
Exceptional
Power!
To realize:
I am a
Person!
I am
Somebody!
I
am Special!
I am
Important! I
am
Great!
I am an
American!
To believe: In my Country and Myself!
To be-responsible-for: The things I say
and do!
To be-thankful-for: Who I am!
And To take-hold-of: My power!
To try-my-best:
To do - What is Right!
To be - A Person of Good Character!
To be - All That
I Can Be by Learning and Respecting?
To see - My American Dream come true!
And To
feel - Pride in my Country and in Myself!
To realize:
Smoking cigarettes
will damage - My Healthful Life!
Drinking alcohol will devitalize -
My Powerful Life!
Using
violence will destroy -
Precious
Life!
Taking drugs will devastate:
My Healthful Life! My Powerful Life!
My Precious Life! My Only
Life!
And this I pledge with all my
Heart.
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Today is truly a special day
Because today you have learned:
Why
our country, the United States of America, is great!
And
why you are great!
And
because today you have pledged with your loving
hearts:
To do - What is Right!
To be
- A Person of Good Character!
And
To be - All That You Can Be by Learning and Respecting!
With
all my
heart:
I
congratulate you! I thank you! And I salute you!
And you have to be special for me to salute you.
And
you are Special!
Now,
I would like you to tell yourselves and the whole world that you
are great!
Please repeat after me:
I AM
GREAT!
I AM GREAT!
I AM GREAT!
Yes,
you are great!
Please do not forget that.
And please do not
forget this:
Hundreds and hundreds of thousands of
Honorable and Brave
Patriotic Americans
Our true American Patriots
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Our true American Heroes
Made-up of all
races, colors and creeds
Have served us! Are serving us!
Have saved us! Are saving us! Have helped us! Are helping us!
Have supported us! Are supporting us! Have protected us! Are protecting
us!
Have suffered for us! Are suffering
for us!
Have sacrificed their precious lives, their
precious loves and possessions for us!
And Are sacrificing their precious lives,
their precious loves and possessions for us!
To preserve
our great Republic
To uphold
the undeniable principles for which we stand
And to defend the unalienable
rights to which all people are endowed by their Creator
Let us always be
thankful to Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic Americans
And let us always try
to live what Our Honorable and Brave Patriotic American
Heroes
Have served for!
Have suffered for! And have died for!
My fellow
Americans
This ends
our patriotic program
May God bless you
and
May God bless our
country
The United States of
America
The Greatest Nation in
the World