The Gifted Photographer
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
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What you may not understand is something I find every single time I come back to the United States after I travel abroad: there is no place which guarantees so many people freedom of expression and so many other freedoms which we are too myopic to see ...
As much as I enjoy and exult in experiencing foreign lands, which you have seen on my trips posted, I only feel that we have relative safety within the borders of this country. While it is far from being the best, everything else pales in comparison.
This is one of the few countries in the world where people are literally dying to come in and become citizens. How many of them have been denied the basic rights we Americans take for granted: voting, freedom to practice our religion, freedom to speak, governments which change in an orderly fashion after an election ...
When I see the Statue of Liberty in NY Harbor, I always cry with genuine emotion. I am never ashamed of these tears of gratitude.
This land gave my immigrant family from Eastern Europe a place to be Jews and never has the government oppressed that particular people which has always been persecuted abroad, either in a de facto or de jura fashion. No government soldiers knock on my door in the middle of the night demanding to see my papers, my birth certificate ...
I am proud of my American citizenship and cherish it above all else because I have seen places where there are very restricted ways of living under various foreign regimes.
Overstated? sure, but, after extensive traveling, I know what I have here and I'll damned if I ever give it up!
“Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.”
© All rights reserved.
What you may not understand is something I find every single time I come back to the United States after I travel abroad: there is no place which guarantees so many people freedom of expression and so many other freedoms which we are too myopic to see ...
As much as I enjoy and exult in experiencing foreign lands, which you have seen on my trips posted, I only feel that we have relative safety within the borders of this country. While it is far from being the best, everything else pales in comparison.
This is one of the few countries in the world where people are literally dying to come in and become citizens. How many of them have been denied the basic rights we Americans take for granted: voting, freedom to practice our religion, freedom to speak, governments which change in an orderly fashion after an election ...
When I see the Statue of Liberty in NY Harbor, I always cry with genuine emotion. I am never ashamed of these tears of gratitude.
This land gave my immigrant family from Eastern Europe a place to be Jews and never has the government oppressed that particular people which has always been persecuted abroad, either in a de facto or de jura fashion. No government soldiers knock on my door in the middle of the night demanding to see my papers, my birth certificate ...
I am proud of my American citizenship and cherish it above all else because I have seen places where there are very restricted ways of living under various foreign regimes.
Overstated? sure, but, after extensive traveling, I know what I have here and I'll damned if I ever give it up!