The year I graduated from high school, 1999, I was one of a handful of students who volunteered to give a speech at Senior Awards Night. The theme was something like:
Why I’m grateful to be an American.
I may be misremembering the exact wording, but the prompt was familiar. Craft a meaningful declaration of patriotism from the barely-formed brain of a lat…
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