Believe

Tomorrow the United States of America will be 244 years old.

My great-grandfather David uprooted his family and sailed from Russia to Ellis Island in 1909 to pursue the American Dream. He was a German who had grown up on the Volga River after his ancestors accepted free land from Catherine The Great.

They chose to leave everything they knew in pursuit of a better life for themselves and all of us who came after.

My ancestors were very simple people who worked with their hands…mostly in the sugar beet fields of mid-Colorado. That’s back-breaking work. They earned every cent and assimilated from being immigrants to becoming  Americans.

My story is probably similar to yours. Through the grace of God and hearty stock, my family flourished in this country. They wanted to live out their lives as free men and women. That would not have been their fate in Mother Russia.

Don’t let anyone tell you the dream is dead. Since its inception, the ideas expressed in the Constitution are still the most brilliant in the history of mankind.

We have problems….on that,  we can all agree. But they can be solved using the road map left to us by the founding fathers.

I still believe we live in the greatest country in the world. I’m grateful for the decision David Dreith made 111 years ago.

And I proudly proclaim….God Bless America…on the birth of its founding.