America Must Stand for Freedom
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 4th, 2010 4:31 am by HL
America Must Stand for Freedom
Claudia Rosett, Forbes
This weekend, on July 4, Americans celebrate the 234th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Over the burgers and sweet corn, that's always a good day to think about what, exactly, it means to be American. One of the best summaries I've heard lately came during a press teleconference Wednesday with someone who is not yet an American citizen. His native tongue is Arabic, thus the slip of syntax: "I think I became an American when I start to fight for liberty and freedom."The speaker was a Palestinian émigré, Mosab Hassan Yousef, who grew up as the…
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