I think it’s uncomfortable to make up your own mind when the older people around you are guiding you in a certain direction, when you’ve grown up listening to the same thing over and over again, when your friends all go to the same worship and believe what they’ve been told consistently, every week of their whole lives. It’s only natural that so many kids’ views reflect their environment. How else can you form an opinion on the unknown?
Read MoreEver since I was old enough to remember, my dad and I have been talking about taking a trip to the Boundary Waters at the Canadian border. He’s told me endless stories about the many trips he’s taken, fishing all day long and canoeing through water that was so clean you could drink it straight out of the lake.
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The America that I love, the one that I’m willing to stand up for every morning for the Pledge of Allegiance, that America doesn’t measure the worth of people based on how much wealth they create or what their perceived importance to society is.
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