America is the great experiment of democracy that is as simple as a series of symbols and as complex as a living, breathing document. She can be uplifting, entertaining, insightful and utterly remarkable. We have the freedom to stand up as one nation and bear witness to our inalienable rights in action. We plan and dream for a bright future... and so we proceed, lifting up one another both here and abroad. Leaders rise and fall, a great sea of ideas enters the public discourse, and each community builds and rebuilds. In this land, we celebrate a history that is at once inspiring and beautiful and sorrowful and challenging. With each step, the great experiment is shaped and renewed as the hand of the Almighty One stretches across its fertile fields, majestic peaks, and life-giving waters. From many voices, one nation rises to face a new dawn.