America's Last Will and Testament

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I, America the Beautiful, being of sound mind and body, and with my faculties still reasonably intact, but feeling my pending demise, my history nearing its end, and eternal darkness waiting for me, do hereby declare this to be my Last Will and Testament,

In my 230 years on planet Earth no one could possibly have seen more of life than I have in so short a time. I’ve seen 43 presidents come and go. I’ve seen transition and gridlock, struggles through war and peace, witnessed hate and love. In the days of my years I saw heartbreak and hope, courage and cowardice, good times and bad times, failure and success, life and death.

From explorer to pilgrim, frontiersman to homesteader; from horses and flintlocks, from prairie schooners to automobiles, from steamships to space ships. I’’ve seen it all, had it all, am proud of it all, and managed to survive it all.

But now I fear my days are numbered. I am being torn apart by factions, ideologies, religions, destroyers of nations, and evil doers. Therefore, before I go, before my legacy is lost to civilization forever, I am leaving you with my Last Will and Testament, not only as a witness to the world that I was here, but also to leave those who have shared this world with me the memories of these times, so that future generations might think of me occasionally, and remember what I, America, meant to them.

TO MY FOUNDING FATHERS, I give my undying respect, gratitude and admiration. I realize it wasn’t easy for you to give me birth; there was nothing like America on earth at the time. To bring me to life you had to have a vision of a new kind of world, You had to determine which was the best political system for me. To do that you had to study ancient as well as contemporary history.

Then, you had to sacrifice your fortunes, your families, even your lives to bring me into existence. You had to suffer hardships, live with fear, rebel against monarchs, resist oppression, fight tyranny, all in the hope that your vision would become a reality. And it did. You made the Declaration of Independence my bones, the Bill of Rights my flesh, the Constitution my blood, and America my name. Thank you.

TO MY CHILDREN, the people who proudly call themselves Americans, I give my hope, strength and determination. You may come in different sizes and shapes, different colors, different religions, and different tongues, but you, my children, all have one thing in common: you belong to one family. You are all Americans and I love you all.

I am particularly proud of your ingenuity, creativity, craftsmanship, and perseverance. Because of these qualities, and what they have produced over the years, the rest of the world often looks at me in admiration and sometimes envy. But that is your doing, not mine.

You may thank me for this, but thank yourselves. You already had all those qualities inside you. All I did was give you the freedom to open your mind without fear, and make it possible for you to discover the genius within yourselves. I must say, you and I have been good for each other.
TO MY FRIENDS, the people in other parts of the world, I give you the guiding principles that my Founding Fathers gave me. These are the principles that I have been blessed with, and I bequeath them to you with my best wishes.

With the huge variety of peoples on Earth there is, of course, bound to be rich and poor, educated and illiterate, poverty and luxury, free and enslaved. After all, you have been created equal but you have not been born equal. As Americans. I have given you the opportunity to be "born again", so to speak, to partake and share in my freedom and independence.

I cannot give these blessings to the whole world, though I wish that were possible. But when I am gone I hope you will remember that I did the best I could do under the circumstances.

TO MY ENEMIES, the ungrateful ones who are using me to further their own selfish ambitions and agendas, I give you my disbelief, my anger, and my sympathy.

I give you my disbelief that anyone who has taken advantage of all that I, America, have to offer would turn your back on me and endanger the values, traditions, heritage and principles which my Founders gave me, and I in turn entrusted to you.

I give you my anger because your plan to dismantle and destroy me also affects my children, and that I cannot, or will not, accept.

I give you my sympathy because "you know not what you do." I wish I could say that all my children were good Americans. Unfortunately, some are not. And those who are not, for evil or selfish reasons, are working against me. That is why I fear the future, even for my life. These destructive children forget, or do not care, what blessings I brought them. They do not realize that they will lose it all in the end. I will try to open their minds and hearts before it is too late. But I fear the end is already upon me.

TO MY GOD, who is the father/mother of ALL, I give my homage, respect, devotion and love. There was no America centuries ago, but you, Lord, were pleased to put the Great Possibility into the minds of my Founding Fathers at that singular moment in universal time. And I and my children have been the benefactors of it, More you could not give me, more I could not ask of you.

Therefore, on this date, December 18, 2006, because the future looks uncertain and bleak, I hereby render my Last Will and Testament for all present to witness.

Signed:


The United States of America

Source: Last Will and Testament of the United States of America - James T. Moore