"If we forget what we did, we forget who we are"

Reagan responds to Obama and his supporters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS4yf723 ... r_embedded

What it means to be an American

“But change would not mean rejection of the past. Like a tree growing strong through the seasons, rooted in the Earth and drawing life from the Sun, so, too, positive change must be rooted in traditional values—in the land, in culture, in family and community— and it must take its life from the eternal things, from the source of all life, which is faith. Such change will lead to new understandings, new opportunities, to a broader future in which the tradition is not supplanted but finds its full flowering. That is the future beckoning to your generation.â€