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Dear America,

This isn't the first time I've tried to contact you. It's hard getting a voice heard around here. I was just writing to let you know that your people always need your help, not just when levees break, but always. It is not just when the threat is eminently looming on the horizon, nor only after your people have suffered greatly that you are needed. No, We need you always.

 Long ago, people wrote of your beauty, of your justice, and of the opportunity you made available. Freedom, liberty, and the pursuit of property, or happiness, whatever makes you smile. Even then there were people who didn't have those freedoms of which you spoke. We continue on, though, trying to prevail against all odds in a fight against the inherent inequality that our nation was born out of. Do you whisper to us, your Children, the lies to keep us going?

Why do you, America, fret over petty things while your country begs your attention? While you gaze off into the distance, we suffer. We still believe in you regardless of your past. Every new generation is taught to forgive you, and so we do. We are taught to trust in you regardless of whether you've earned that trust, and so we do. It would be nice if you started appreciating all that you get from us. We turn over our income in order to redistribute our wealth and fund whatever you deem is necessary to make our lives better. We give you trust regardless of actions... a sort of unconditional love, though it is sometimes tested and hard to percieve. Maybe it is time to fulfill some of those promises you've made to us, the People.

Still yours truly,

A Concerned Citizen

*Feel free to write your own letter to America, the Beautiful!