America is Freedom.
Freedom is America.
Freedom has been America’s guiding light for those who have come before us. Now, it must shine brighter than ever for those who are yet to come. Freedom requires strength. It requires boldness. Freedom requires sacrifice and it requires grace, because it is often in grace that we find true freedom.
America shed her grace on me long before I entered the world. Over 50 years ago, with arms wide open, she welcomed two brave souls fleeing a communist regime in a country that embodies the very opposite of freedom. Those two souls were my parents, who arrived in this country with only the clothes on their backs, but carried within them a light of hope that the strongest gust of wind could not extinguish. They walked away from the only life they knew for the promise of freedom and an opportunity to provide a better life for themselves—but more importantly, a future for their children….