America has to a large extant been built on the backs of immigrants who came here with hopes, dreams, aspirations, challenges, and desires. These emotions remain a part of all of us, for they are a large part of the human spirit. Reading about their journey and adventures nourishes ones own imagination about who you are, what you want to be, and how you want to achieve your destiny. Little about your life is about luck, chance, or hope. Your life has it's foundation in guidance from your parents, friends, and relatives. Solid planning, education, and hard work, accompanied of course by the support and help that each of your family members provide will or has assisted and guided you forward into a future unique to yourself that no one else will ever experience. We are all different in most ways though remain similar in so many others. We thrive on love, attention, challenges, desires, needs, hope and aspirations for that is what the human spirit is all about. We have all faced adversity on countless occasions, yet these brief stumbles only provide another opportunity to move ahead unfazed by the temporary back slide only to once again chip away at our future to achieve the dreams that make us who we are. No one travels the same path. Italian immigrants like others came to America believing it held for them and their family a new opportunity to find a better home and a better place for them to enjoy and experience life. They left behind problems that they felt could not be overcome and in believing rightfully so that America represented a land of opportunity and beauty like none other. They never looked back. Many believed that the streets of America are paved in gold and for most of them it has been. To leave their secure birthplace and homeland, these immigrants were a brave and daring bunch of people that could see a brighter future than those who stayed behind were able to envision. These amazing and soon to be Americans exemplify why America and Americans are so strong in their beliefs and in their tireless desire to work hard and succeed. America is a land of brilliant, strong, and amazing achievers that cannot be suppressed when it comes to attaining their goals. That is what makes America great. America is composed of people from all walks of life, from all countries of the earth, and from all races, ethnic groups, and persuasions of every description. Americans are the greatest of all that live on this fine planet because they believe in themselves as individuals and as a group they believe in what America will bestow upon them more than what others of different cultures can ever hope for. That is recognized by the entire world and why the flag; "Don't Tread On Me" has such symbolism. Benjamin Franklin praised the vigilance of rattlesnakes with an innate instinct and constant vigilance not to attack unless provoked. This was a suggestion to Great Britain as a response to them for sending convicted criminals to America. We would send rattlesnakes back to them. We as a nation of amazing men and women will not be bested nor overcome by a foreign power and will advance the cause of all mankind until the bitter end. Are you a beautiful American? I bet that you are. Just look around you. They are everywhere. Americans the Beautiful.
