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What Are America's Gifts To My Generation

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America’s Gift To My Generation

America has offered us many things to be proud of. But often times, we fail, and only look at the simplest things. We think of our freedoms; speech, religion, press. But while those are our valuable gifts, we forget to look inside of those gifts, to find something more meaningful. This essay is about my generation’s gift, but also everybody else’s gift, unique in it’s own time. It is believable, that over the past 241 years, that the greatest gift, that shows up stronger in every generation, is the spirit of us, a spirit ‘We the people’. In recent events, we may forget that we are one, but I know, that we are, hand-in-hand. We founded this nation amidst a complication and confusion of divided colonies, but linking arms and gritting our …show more content…

And if people think that that has changed, through the division of Democrats and Republicans, white and black, then we are inaccurate… because we forget what united us in events like the World Wars. We forgot that every man, every woman, and even children were fighting to bring about success, and sacrificed, everything, together. Do we even care to remember the Revolutionary War, which is the reason why I am writing this, for you to read? We omit the gory details from history, that actual ones that brought us home, home to a new nation. America sometimes fails to realize that in order to be united, it is acceptable to mess up, as long as we are determined to learn from it. The Civil War might’ve been a mistake, something that never should have happened, because we should have been treating everyone the equally in the first place. America’s mistake, the people’s mistake, I admit it. But a learning process, all the same. So here we are. Too blinded to see the greatest gift to our nation, that has always been one of the best blessing ever bestowed upon us. Will we be the generation that wakes up and sees it for what it is, and

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