Independence Day, 2021
In his greatest book, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, America’s greatest writer, described the sense of astonishment that early America’s European settlers felt as they ventured into this brave new world:
“For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.”
Ladies and gentlemen, there is, literally, not a day that goes by, that I don’t thank God that I have been privileged to live in this great land. I pray that my fellow Americans will join me in my profound respect and appreciation for this amazing country and wonderful nation and say with me the simple petition: “May God Bless America.”
Happy Independence Day!
