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By Danny Schechter
Author of The Crime Of Our Time.
One of America’s greatest songs begins this way:
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Think of that image of “truth marching on” with “terrible swift swords’ at the ready to reunify a divided nation, end a bitter secession and restore a union that had been torn asunder,
The author, Julia Ward Howe, was not just a patriot, but an activist, and an abolitionist who supported the North against the South to eradicate slavery and restore the union.
When President Obama speaks today, he always makes a point of invoking and punching up the name, or perhaps the memory, of “The UNITED States of America.”
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