Not since JFK uttered these inspirational words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLdA1ikkoEc

have I felt so proud to be an American...and that was almost

50 years ago!

First I watched Bruce Springsteen and Pete Seeger sing

This Land is Your Land:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg0wiOHc9tI

....that sent me right over the edge...but when Beyonce sang America the Beautiful:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwrGgjiAnzE

I could not stop crying.