America

I love Netflix, a lot, like to the point I probably need an intervention. Recently I switched to Amazon Prime(and when I say "I" I mean my sister and brother-in-law since I use their account... it's about budgeting, right...). If you have it you should check out the documentary called  America, The Story of us. I love the crap out of documentaries, (I also watched a five part documentary about Auschwitz) I think it goes along with my need to know so much, knowledge is power.

 It's a 12 part series, which is awesome! It starts out with the first Eropean inhabitats and goes clear up to the present. It showed about the people that first lived in Jamestown in the 1600's, for a time their were only 60 of them, they built their town in the middle of a Native American area, they didn't know how to survive with planting and hunting and they were starving. In the movie it was described as "hell on earth". One man was so hungry he killed his pregnant wife with the intent to eat her, he was later burnt at a stake; I'm glad to see that even back then wanting to eat your pregnant wife was against the law.

Fast forward past that part and you start to realize how awesome the people that built our country were. They sought freedom, not just for themselves but for their neighbors and family and their future generations. They did things for the good of the people not just to further themselves. They built up towns, cities, discovered new territory, established a government with the intent of "Liberty and Justice for all". A group of untrained farmers and other men fought one of the best army's in the world, England, to make sure that themselves and their posperity would have freedom and the best life possible. I watch this and I realize how bad-ass America was, our leaders were bad-ass, our people were bad-ass and our ideas were bad-ass.... What has happened to our country?

If you want something, earn it, work for it, if you are down on your luck use your governments help as a lifeline not a life style; I have and I am thankful for it. I want us to be proud of our leaders again and to be a united and proud country.. Lets be the solution not the problem.

Yes, America has had its rough patches; women's suffrage... Slavery (why did people think it was okay to own other humans) but we learned.. we progressed. I'm not going to tell you if I'm "democrat" or "republican" or what my points of views are, I just hope as a whole that durning mine and Boston's life we as a county can get our act together and be the bad-ass country our ancestors imagined and fought for us to be.

XO:

Ashlynn&Boston BRONSON