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Give me a minute…….I would like to tell you why “I” believe we need to be thankful! \u00a0We live in a society that is focused on everything bad, evil and corrupt about this country. \u00a0I will give you that there is plenty of that in the world we live in, but that is not the whole story. \u00a0Sometimes the best way to see our country is let someone, not from here, give us a report card!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n This summer millions of people from all over the world have visited our shores for the World Cup Soccer. \u00a0There evaluations of our country sounds nothing like what you would think if you watched just the major media of the U.S. or the world for that matter! \u00a0Most were warned that they would find American and Americans. dangerous, unfriendly and hostile to them…. \u00a0the very opposite has been the ringing endorsement of us! \u00a0They rave about the people, the police, the stadiums, the spirit of Americans! \u00a0They can’t believe our highway system, our economy! \u00a0They openly claim that they have never seen anything like Costco, Walmart and Buc-ee’s in the countries! \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We’ve welcomed them, cheered for them and made friends of many people that were frankly concerned about coming here in the first place. \u00a0While some Americans don’t love this country, don’t like our flag, or have no tolerance for celebrating our 250th birthday, I often wonder why they stay here, anyone has the right and ability to leave this place if it’s so bad for them! \u00a0You can think anything you want about America, but I’m proud and happy to be here, I love my country and I’m thankful too!<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blessings,<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n the pilgrim<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Give me a minute…….I would like to tell you why “I” believe we need to be thankful! \u00a0We live in a society that is focused on everything bad, evil and corrupt about this country. \u00a0I will give you that there is plenty of that in the world we live in, but that is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28540,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28538\/revisions\/28540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/billfortney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/The-flag-960x720.jpg\")
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