APPLES PROUD TO BE AMERICANS

Is This A Great Country Or What
The Mountain Top Is In Sight

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Nashville, TN.

Go figure, the sun did rise today and the birds are still chirping. Following a long and often bitter presidential campaign (nothing new there), people across the globe today have again witnessed, why despite our shortcomings and problems as a nation,we the people of the United States of America are among the most fortunate people alive.

How great is it that a country of our size and diverse human experiences, can come together under the freedoms provided by our founding fathers and in one day change our government that is in fact, "Of the People, By the People, And for the People"

With the election of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States, we have continued the process of a peaceful change of power that has been undertaken every four years for over 200 years now.

When contacted at his off season home in suburban Nashville about the election, AGFHOF Don Bernitt commented that "regardless of our individual preferences and regardless how we cast our vote, today we should all sing the song of Lee Greenwood and say, I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free."

Bernitt went on to say, "of course, with last night's peaceful change of power, comes the historic fact that our country has elected it's first Afro-American President, and while it is important on occasion to look back at the past disgrace that is our nations racial history, I feel that it is far more important that we now look forward and realize that all Americans can now live the life that was put forth by Martin Luther King when he spoke of his dream and said, "Free at last, Free at Last, Thank GOD Almighty We Are Free At Last."

Continued Bernitt, as long as I am throwing out quotes, how about this one, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." With that, Bernitt headed to the Apples new training facility in downtown Nashville and joined several other of his teammates as the Apples ramp up their off season conditioning program as they prepare for the 2009 Coed Softball Season.

With the election now over, it's back to the important things in life as we are now a day closer to when we next hear the now famous cheer.....................

How bout them Apples!