What America Means To Me

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I can’t even start on the amount of gifts that America has given to my generation, but the most important one to me is and always will be our freedom. I love freedom because it simply means what it says. It means we are free to choose what we are gonna do in the morning, night, and afternoon. It means we can choose what we are gonna do when we grow up, what job we take on, and who we support or who we don’t. We get to say our mind on any topic no matter our opinion on it. We get to live our own life exactly how we want to as long as we work for it. Another thing America does is send our troops to fight the terrorist that try to hurt our nation's glory and I respect every single one of them immensely. I have two brothers in the army and I

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