Random Thoughts About America

Stan Lee, the creator of the Marvel Comics, once put the following words in the mouth of Odin, the All Father of Asgard, as he was trying to explain the idea behind Asgard to his son Thor, he said, “Asgard is not a place; never was. This could be Asgard. Asgard is where our people stand; even now, right now those people need your help.”

As reflected this fictional character’s words, put there by Stan Lee, it finally dawned on me what America is, or at least what it could be. The past has a weird way of telling us our purpose, the purpose of certain ideas and concepts. The great minds and architects of our land gave us a blueprint of what to strive towards.

America is not a place, never was. The place where you make your stand for freedom, that could be America. America, it is where our freedom loving people make our stand for liberty, even for those people we do not know. America is an idea, and she is also a dream; she is an ideal worth striving for.