Karl F. Schmiedeke, during a visit to Pineville, North Carolina, stopped at the post office for stamps. “May I please have some pretty ones?” he asked. The clerk reached into the drawer, took out 10 stamps imprinted with the American flag, and slid them across the counter. “You can’t get any prettier than that,” he replied. If the astronaut was right when he said, “Earth is an oasis in space,” then I’m right when I say, “America is an oasis on the earth.”
A friend and I stood on the banks of the Rio Grande some time ago peering over into Mexico. He said, “It doesn’t look any different over there than it does here.” I responded, “Yes, but there’s a world of difference between this side of the river and that side.” I’ve traveled to 30 or 40 countries around the world and I tell you there are none like America. It is one of those things I wouldn’t take nothing for.