Letter to the Editor...
Beautiful America Growing up in the 60s, I sang AMERICA in school very frequently. Spacious skies, purple mountains majesty, amber waves of grain, fruited plains, God shed his trace on thee, were some of the lyrics.
Commercials advertised See the USA. Get your kicks on Route 66.
Then came “Please don’t litter.” Trash cans were installed in many roadside parks and other public areas. Soon the…