T he land of the free and the home of the brave. The home country of Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, and Charles Manson.
The land of opposites and contrasts. Plenty of different nationalities, religions, and skyscrapers.
Jack Welch, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Mark Twain, Henry David Thoreau, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Edison, Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Muhammad Ali, Pete Sampras, Randy Couture, Paul Newman, Humphrey Bogart, Harrison Ford, John Travolta, Jack Nicholson, Clint Eastwood, Elizabeth Taylor ...
This is a proud, patriotic, and moral country. In every aspect the world's leading country. This country has it all: people, competence and moral. And God, whom the nation trusts.
Eddie Vedder sings the national anthem of the United States, "The Star-Spangled Banner."
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