America the Beautiful: - Take your kids to the mountaintop

Take your kids to the mountaintop
Tribune-Star - I took the family to Colorado Springs this summer. I feel it is every American s duty to ascend Pike s Peak with his offspring at least once. After all, Katherine Lee Bates, a school teacher, sat on top and wrote America the Beautiful. She

Sound Off: What does it mean to be an American?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - I have lived all over the world and never experienced the same freedom to express my regret and remorse over the course my beautiful country has taken in the last few years. I am so proud to freely say how disappointed I am in my country, only

Thousands turn out for nation's oldest Independence Day celebration
East Bay - Bands played plenty of the regular marching songs during the parade, including the Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful and the like. But there were others, too, probably not heard too often during the Fourth of July parade. One band