Songs of Sunshine

      For my final blog post, I chose to discuss how music can bring people together, particularly speaking during a national crisis. During this post, I will be focusing on the United States, and how people from all over the world come here to get a fresh start with freedom and hopes of living the “American Dream.” There are so many amazing songs about this great country of ours that make us proud to be an American, even if we all don’t necessarily agree or get along with one another.        Obviously, the first song that comes to everyone’s mind when they think of an American song is the Star Spangled Banner, but I’m going to focus more on other songs that demonstrate our American pride.      One of these other songs just so happens to be one that I think is just as popular as the Star Spangled Banner, and that would be  God Bless the U.S.A.  by Lee Greenwood. This song was written by Greenwood in 1984 in response to his feelings about the shooting down of Korean Airlines Flight 007,