Where is the beer and the BBQ - a Blog Post by GerK321Cum

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7/4/2013 3:01 pm

Where is the beer and the BBQ

I suppose when one grows up one starts to see the world around them, the room, their home, their garden, neighbourhood, their town, state or country - and so it was with me and the far off country of the U.S.A. commonly known as "The States".

An Irish Connection

I suppose President John F. Kennedy's visit to Ireland in 1963 would be one on many Irish peoples memories. Ireland has laid claim to many famous Americans over the year, Ronald Reagan, Henry Ford and more recently President Barack Obama was found to have some Irish ancestry. Maybe you have some Irish blood in you too!

Irish people would also know some one, or even a whole family, who had gone "West" in search of fame and fortune, adventure, or more rationally, to escape unemployment or enjoy a different quality of life and lifestyle, with over 36,000,000 people now claiming Irish ancestry.

Learning about the U.S.A.

When I was young growing we listened to the latest on the Vietnam war on the radio, the bombing of Hanoi and the battles around Saigon, I was very young then, but the U.S.A. were going to the moon too. I watched Neil Armstrong set his foot on the soil of another heavenly body beyond earth and utter his, now famous words of "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". How the world was united in this event and again is following the events and wishing for the safe return of the Apollo 13 astronauts. I remember queuing at the U.S.A. Embassy in Dublin to see moon rock, the cumulative effect of a country bend on exploration and progress and that gave us cheap and easy transcontinental travel through the Boeing 707.

We got views of the Wild West on the Silver Screen, Roy Rogers and Danial Boone, watched Gene Kelly dancing in the rain, and Fed Astaire and Ginger Rogers, not to mention Shirley Temple, Gone with the Wind and who was not following the Yellow Brick Road. The real life story of George M. Cohan, the father of Broadway, encouraging many Irish people to head "Over there" although the idea his song was to support U.S.A. troops abroad, and our schools interpretation was in no doubt when the school's rugby team scored and we stood up pointed our fingers at the opposition supporters and sang "Over there, Over there, You're all very quiet over there!".

The vastness of the U.S. of A. cannot be comprehended without a visit, and the variation that it has to offer ensures that there is something for everyone but no one will visit it all. From the North East Coast to the Florida Everglades, through mountains, deserts and fertile plains, to California, the Pacific Coast and north to Alaska and the Pacific Northwest Coast, which is shares in part with Canada.

Every Irish schoolboy and girl had to read and learn "Rotha Mor an tSaoil" a book of the adventures an Irish Immigrant including Silver Mining in Butte, Montana. (I am sure that it was great we just had difficulty understanding the Irish (Gaelic)).I am reminded of these adventures when I watch the Discovery Chanel's "Gold Rush". Television has allowed us visit many of the wonderful places that the U.S.A. has to offer but nothing can replace the wish to visit in person.

Wishing on a Star

Books and Television, Movies and Exploration, only enhances the desire to visit and so no matter what Star represents your State just remember that someone somewhere is Wishing upon your Star!

Happy 4th July U.S.A.

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