https://www.bing.com/videos/search?...D1F41935BFC29809CC87D1F41935BFC2980&FORM=VIRE [video] Lyrics What is America to me A name, a map, or a flag I see A certain word, democracy What is America to me The house I live in A plot of Earth, a street The grocer and the butcher And the people that I meet The children in the playground The faces that I see All races and religions That's America to me The place I work in The worker by my side The little town the city Where my people lived and died The howdy and the handshake The air a feeling free And the right to speak your mind out That's America to me The things I see about me The big things and the small The little corner newsstand Or the house a mile tall The wedding and the churchyard The laughter and the tears The dream that's been a growing For a hundred and fifty years The town I live in The street, the house, the room The pavement of the city Or the garden all in bloom The church the school the clubhouse The million lights I see But especially the people That's America to me Songwriters: LEWIS ALLAN, EARL ROBINSON
Did you watch the video? Sinatra is talking to the boys in the neighborhood who are mistreating an outsider.
I'll confess to not listening to the entire song since you took the time to write out the words. But I never heard anything about NAZIs. It was a nice lesson in tolerance and diversity.
Or build ports of entry to welcome people from all over the world to visit or join us as Americans. I have always thought of America as the promised land for others seeking a better way of life for them and their children. I was taught that by my grandparents who heard it from theirs. My vision Of America does not include a big wall with razor wire on the top and people with guns warding people off.
Sustainability... you lefties use it often. Sustainable growth in population or your country will collapse. So as sweet and cute and cuddly as it is to embrace the whole world... the whole world will crush you... and all the other innocent Americans who didn't ask for it.
I have nothing but respect for those knocking and trying to enter through the front door. For those trying to crawl in through the window however not so much.
How about the ones who came to visit and fell in love with the country and wish to stay. I have dozens of Irish friends who have lived in New York for decades without committing any crime except overstaying their visas and want to become Americans. Same with a lot of Mexicans and Central Americans. These are good productive people and I would be proud to sponsor all of them to become citizens.
Coes falling in love with your house give me the right to camp out in your living room in perpetuity? That being said I am all for giving such people a leg up in the process and allowing them to stay here while the process is in play. That being said the H1b visa system is horribly abused and among the worst abusers are big tech.
Sinatra got an academy award for this short film which he was always proud of. In the beginning he breaks up a fight among the schoolboys.. The scene is set for Sinatra to talk about xenophobia, racism, blood transfusions, immigrants and what it means to be an American. I am a big Sinatra fan my whole life and didn't know this short piece existed until last Friday. I shared it with my kids and grandkids.
Sinatra tells the schoolboys that they just fought a war to defeat the Nazi and their xenophobia.. He chides one boy who brags that he soldier/hero father received three blood transfusions for his wounds during the war.