I was going to simply respond to KittyFeralXIV's Blog entitled Who taught the European Settlers how to be American? But I felt I would do well to make sure the message get better coverage than a simple response would reap.
She said and I quote: "Being American is all about being Free, and since the idea of Freedom was totally foreign to many Europeans who came to this continent I wonder where they got the inspiration to fight for Freedom & Liberty. One evening recently as I was driving across Southern Arizona the answer may have finally come to me. I was listening to a radio station that was unlike most radio stations and probably can only be found in places like Arizona. The stations there often have a combination and blending of English Language and Indian Language, and the music is very Indian much of the time. It came to me that The Indians may have been the ones who taught Europeans how to be American, but on that station there was an interview of a singer who mentioned that there is a high suicide rate among Indians these days, and I find it disturbing that the people who are about as American as anyone can get may also be putting themselves on the endangered list. America without Indians would no longer be America, so it is a serious matter when The Native Americans become that discouraged."

While I am sure KittyFeralXIV's thoughts certainly have some merit because we are all influenced by and become who and what we are because of those around us I think it is clearly explained how the Nation was formed and the reasons for it in the Declaration of Independence.

Very few people stop and take the time to read this, the most important document ever written in the history of man up to that point in time which spells out the reason for the actions that led to the founding of our Nation and the causes for which our founding Fathers fought and died for.

The reasons it is important that we continue to recognize those reasons and causes today as we fight for our rights and against the kinds of usurpation that the Obama Administration and others are trying to promote with policies that are regressive are clear to me.  If they remain unchecked they lead us into a Socialist dictatorship not unlike that of NAZI Germany.
I would like for everyone to read the Declaration of Independence again now as adults while keeping in mind that it is of the utmost importance that we rever forget the reasons for it and the core values that were at the heart of the of it's creation.

I do realize that some will call me a racist or a hater for using terminology that might seem over the top but what is at stake is the very future of the Nation we were born into and so many came here to enjoy rather than go along to get along in place in the world where freedom is just a dream that is never realized.

I am including a link rather than reprinting the entire text in the hope that everyone will see the importance of reading it once again while keeping in mind that the fight is just as real today as it was when the Declaration was signed over 230 years ago anr the stakes are no less important.

I will close with this quote and ask that you read the intire taxt once again to remind each of us wgat it says and what ir means to us today.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

We hold these truths to be self-evident!

Thank you for your time.

Matt-D