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America Essay Contest
America Essay Contest: A Leader and Innovator, Land of the Free and Home of the Brave
Commentary Just hearing the question “Why do I love America?” leads me to ask how can we not love this country? America is a city on a hill, a bright ...
December 15, 2020
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Sarah Herrick
America Essay Contest: We Must Shed Our Grace on America
Commentary America is Freedom. Freedom is America. Freedom has been America’s guiding light for those who have come ...
December 14, 2020
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Leah Vidal
America Essay Contest: Vietnam Vet: ‘I knew I was fighting for America against communism’
By Bill Schmidt Commentary I was raised in Texas in the 50’s and early 60’s with two ...
December 9, 2020
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Bill Schmidt
America Essay Contest: All People Are Created by God to Be Equal in Dignity
Commentary In 1776, the “course of human events” was such that the thirteen American colonies of Great Britain ...
December 8, 2020
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Terryn Boucher
America Essay Contest: Why Did They Put Everything on the Line?
Commentary Sipping raspberry lemonade and resting peacefully in the shade on my cradling hammock, I hardly notice the ...
December 7, 2020
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Ivan Stockham
America Essay Contest: Grandeur From Sea to Shining Sea
Commentary Why do I love America? The answer is simple: the place is beautiful. Absolutely beautiful. It is ...
December 5, 2020
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Michael Landau
America Essay Contest: From Behind Bars, I Appreciate My Country So Much More
Commentary One may wonder how an incarcerated felon can find anything to love about the United States of ...
December 3, 2020
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Jon Adams
America Essay Contest: What I learned About America at Twelve Miles an Hour
Commentary We were driving across the Golden Gate Bridge when it happened. I’d mentioned to my wife that ...
November 30, 2020
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Stuart McDowell
America Essay Contest: America Is the Sheepdog That Protects From the Wolves of the World
Commentary As a young teenager, I started to respect the military and the traditions of the United States. ...
November 29, 2020
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Stacey Smith
America Essay Contest: Where Good Men Do Nothing, Evil and Corruption Prevail
Commentary On a cold winter day in 1956, as a young soldier on the way to a meeting ...
November 25, 2020
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H. Vern Brazell
America Essay Contest: From War-torn Germany to Beverly Hills
Commentary In 1941, during World War II, I was born in Germany. While many German citizens lived through ...
November 24, 2020
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Maren Daglia
America Essay Contest: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
Commentary The reason I love America and what makes it, and our heritage, worth defending is the freedom ...
November 23, 2020
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Jim Phillips
America Essay Contest: A Country of Innate Goodness and Prevalent Kindness
Commentary When I was young, I had a certain fascination with a country. I romanticized this country, steeped ...
November 22, 2020
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John Patston
America Essay Contest: We Are Breaking the Cycle of Tyranny
Commentary America is not a nation. America is not a location. America is not a people. America is ...
November 21, 2020
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Casey Helbach
America Essay Contest: Each State in Our Union Has a Distinct Personality
Commentary America, How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. —Sonnet 43, Elizabeth Barrett Browning ...
November 20, 2020
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Janet Newcomb
America Essay Contest: We Fail, We Fall, and We Stand Back Up
Commentary I am not perfect. My parents were not perfect, nor were their parents. Yet somehow my family ...
November 18, 2020
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Paul Stewart
America Essay Contest: Why Do I Love My Country? A Poem
Commentary Why is it that I love my country And think it best in all the world? Why ...
November 17, 2020
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Charity Barry
America Essay Contest: The Country That Dared to Dream
Commentary My grandpa was raised by a single mother who was a true “Rosie the Riveter.” She worked ...
November 16, 2020
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Sara Grundvig
America Essay Contest: How My Faith Was Restored in Legal Immigration
Commentary I was brought up to love my country and to appreciate its heritage of immigration and how ...
November 14, 2020
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John Knowlton
America Essay Contest: The True Heart of America: Lives Are Measured by a Virtuous Character
Commentary How do we measure the value of America? Is it measured from a historical perspective? Sociological perspective? ...
November 13, 2020
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Michael Stevens
America Essay Contest: Let’s Reclaim the America Our Founders Imagined
Commentary America is the land of opportunity, a nation of freedom and prosperity. She is a nation we ...
November 12, 2020
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Sierra Reisman
America Essay Contest: JFK, MLK, and the US Military Taught Me Well
Commentary Oh beautiful, for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties, Above the fruited ...
November 11, 2020
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Charles Rush
America Essay Contest: ‘We’re Not Spartans, We’re Americans’
Commentary I am an American, and proud to be one. In an age when our history is under ...
November 10, 2020
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Vance Hawk
America Essay Contest: I am American—Period
Commentary Growing up in America, I never questioned what it meant to be American. I just was. I ...
November 9, 2020
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Andrea Mendez
America Essay Contest: America Is Freedom
The screen door closed behind me with its familiar "whack," and this 10-year-old was off on a surreptitious ...
November 6, 2020
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Bill Sumner
America Essay Contest: Through an Elder and an Infant, I Found My True Love for America
Commentary As with any relationship, love for country grows with time and experience. Looking back over my life, ...
November 5, 2020
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Courtney Cantrella
America Essay Contest: This Country Is the First of Its Kind
Commentary “These are the times that try men’s souls: the summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in ...
November 3, 2020
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Jose Gil
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