I am an American! I am second generation American on my mother's side and third generation American on my father's side. The feeling of extreme gratitude, to my ancestors, is felt daily for what they went through that their descendants may live in the land of the free. I am baseball, apple pie and Doris Day. I worship as I wish, sit in the cool evening breeze without fearing bombs and hostile takeover of my country. I can bear my children in sterile hospitals with the latest technologies, bury my relatives in plots desired by them rather than in a mile long trench and shake the hands of my neighbors without fearing persecution. I am free to speak, to share, to love and to cry at hearing "God Bless America," This Land is Your Land," and "My Country 'Tis of Thee." KGD Karen sumrg@jps.net ~~~~ Historic Cemeteries of Nevada County http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~historic ~~~~ Nevada County Genconnect Boards http://genconnect.rootsweb.com/genbbs.cgi/USA/Ca/Nevada