I'm a True American

Every Fourth of July my dad tells me that we are true Americans. That phrase can go a million different directions: "I'm a true American because I like beer, I'm a true American because I wear baseball caps, I'm a true American because I watch Duck Dynasty." Well I'm an American, true or not, not because of who we have become but because of what we were before. To this day, men and women lay down their lives for their country not because of what we have now but because of what we were then. Freedom does not come without a price, but I swear when you got it, it's sweeter than anything in the world. I'm blessed to live in a country where I can sit in a room and play guitar without getting hurt, to walk to the store with my friends without having to worry about invasions, to sleep at night without hearing gunfire in the late distance. Blessed to be an American for what I have now and what I've had then. I say God bless America because we are strong, brave, and free.