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U.S. SOCCER MOVES CLOSER TO GOAL
Michael Bradley of the USA heads the ball during World Cup match against England in South Africa.
Spain may have won the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, but the United States team also had a victory of sorts, winning international respect for a gritty performance, a host of new fans, and building momentum for the future. 4 AMERICAN PATRIOT
Steve Cherundolo of the USA clears the ball during a match with England.
U.S. WORLD CUP TEAM ROSTER J O Z Y A LT I D O R E Forward, Boca Raton FL DAMARCUS BEASLEY Midfielder, Ft. Wayne IN CARLOS BOCANEGRA Defender, Alta Loma CA JONATHAN BORNSTEIN Defender, Los Alamitos CA MICHAEL BRADLEY Midfielder, Manhattan Beach CA EDSON BUDDLE Forward, New Rochelle, NY
Though the U.S. is admittedly not a soccer nation, the American team managed to progress into the quarterfinals and American citizens united to support the U.S. team. American fans showed unflagging support at the event, in bars and venues across the country, and by breaking every soccer television viewing record. Bob Bradley said of the U.S. fans: “We have received incredible support from all our fans at home and from the many, many fans who have made the trip here.” They were rewarded with a surprising and positive tie with heavily-favored England, as well as with a tie versus Slovenia and a victory over Algeria. The loss in the World Cup came in extra time against Ghana, after tying the score late in regulation. In the process, the American team became the “comeback kids,” forever fighting back from deficits to tie or win.
STEVE CHERUNDOLO Defender, San Diego CA RICARDO CLARK Midfielder, Jonesboro GA JAY DEMERIT Defender, Green Bay WI CLINT DEMPSEY Midfielder, Nacogdoches TX LANDON DONOVAN Midfielder, Redlands CA MAURICE EDU Midfielder, Fontana CA BENNY FEILHABER Midfielder, Irvine CA ROBBIE FINDLEY Forward, Phoenix AZ
Finishing fourteenth out of forty-nine teams was a notable feat for Coach Bob Bradley and his men. Landon Donovan, finally meeting his enormous potential, scored three goals during the tournament and was clearly the outstanding U.S. player. At 28 year old, Donovan also served a role model for the younger players and future stars of a U.S. team that featured Michael Bradley who scored one key goal, the explosively fast Jozy Altidore, and Goalie Tim Howard who had sixteen incredible saves over the course of the four games.
HERCULEZ GOMEZ Forward, Las Vegas NV
The future for the U.S. men’s soccer team is promising with up-andcoming players like Jonathan Spector, Stuart Holden, DeMarcus Beasley and Michael Bradley. Though it remains uncertain whether Bob Bradley will continue as coach, the U.S. team is expected to be a staunch competitor in the 2014 World Cup.
TIM HOWARD Goalkeeper, North Brunswick NJ
LANDON DONOVAN SCORES WINNER AGAINST ALGERIA
CLARENCE GOODSON Defender, Alexandria BRAD GUZAN Goalkeeper, Homer Glen IL MARCUS HAHNEMANN Goalkeeper, Seattle WA STUART HOLDEN Midfielder, Houston TX
OGUCHI ONYEWU Defender, Olney MD JONATHAN SPECTOR Defender, Arlington Heights IL JOSE TORRES Midfielder, Longview TX AMERICAN PATRIOT 5
THE FATHER OF AMERICAN ENGLISH
NOAH WEBSTER 6 AMERICAN PATRIOT
Noah Webster loved the English language. A lexiconographer, author and political writer, Webster spent his life seeking to reform education and bring coherence to the language of America. In 1783, Webster took initiative and wrote his own textbook entitled “A Grammatical Institute of the English Language” but affectionately referred to by students and teachers alike as the “Blue-Backed Speller.” So popular were these textbooks, that they were still in use half a century after their creation. Throughout his life, he continued to edit and write textbooks.
Born in 1758, Webster was the child of a wellestablished Yankee family. He graduated from Yale University in 1778 and served in the Connecticut Militia while in school. Webster went on to become a schoolteacher in Hartford. After a few years of teaching, he realized that the American school system desperately needed to be reformed. The schools were overcrowded and the books were outdated. Many schoolbooks were still being shipped over from England.
Webster’s ultimate goal, however, was to create a truly American dictionary. At 43 years old, Webster began his work on this project. American English was still inconsistent at the time with words, phrases and spellings from British English mixed in and mixed up. Webster sought unity; he defined words like “color” — eschewing the British version “colour”— so that American English would be congruous across the country. He finished 47 years later with a dictionary that contained with 70,000 words. Although some Americans found fault with some of the spellings in the dictionary at the time, Webster ignored these dissenters, and forged ahead with publication. The dictionary became an influential best seller for homes, schools and businesses. Webster died in 1843, and the rights to the dictionary were sold to the Merriam brothers. Charles and George Merriam revised the dictionary several times during their lifetimes. Modifications were continued after the brothers died. Now, Webster’s legacy is fondly remembered by every schoolchild who owns a Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. AMERICAN PATRIOT 7
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THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
The winter of 1944 was fiercely cold across Western Europe. Germany was losing the war, and Allied spirits were rising. Earlier that year, the Allies had successfully stormed the beaches of Normandy and moved quickly across France. They had reached the Rhine, but before penetrating the German homeland, they would face one last major offensive.
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The Battle of the Bulge, as the fight became known, was the largest battle U.S. forces were involved in during World War II. The battlefield stretched over 80 miles, all the way from Belgium to Luxembourg. Hitler hoped to break the Allied forces’ momentum by surprise: his strategy was to break through the Allied troops and march north to Antwerp, where German troops could cut off the main supply base for the Allied forces located on the Western Front.
large groups very difficult. German troops were cleverly dressed in white uniforms to blend into the snow and fog, which made it even more difficult for the Allied troops. Over 500,000 American and 55,000 British troops fought in the battle led by Generals Patton, Eisenhower, McAuliffe, Bradley, Hodges, and British General Montgomery. After fierce fighting, the Germans finally began to retreat in early January. By mid-January, the “bulge” was merely a slight curve in the line.
“This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war…” – WINSTON CHURCHILL On the night of December 15, 1944, Hitler sent German soldiers disguised as American troops with proficient English skills to confuse the American troops by giving them false directions, cutting communication wires, and changing road signs. The next day, under heavy fog, the German Army began to advance, pushing the Americans all the way back to the Meuse River and creating a huge “bulge” in the line. It took more than a week for the Americans to begin their first counterattack. Heavy snowstorms and severe weather made planning and moving
The Allied troops had been brave and relentless. Winston Churchill said of the battle: “This is undoubtedly the greatest American battle of the war and will, I believe, be regarded as an ever-famous American victory.” German casualties were very high; historians estimate that approximately 100,000 German soldiers were killed or wounded during the battle. In addition, 800 tanks and 1,000 aircraft were destroyed. CLICK HERE FOR AN INTERACTIVE MAP OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE A COLLECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BATTLE AMERICAN PATRIOT 9
AMERICA’S FUN FOODS
BUFFALO WINGS
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America was forever changed on October 3, 1964. On that day, Teressa Belissimo, owner of the Anchor Bar in Buffalo NY, threw some chicken wings into the deep fryer as a late night snack for her college-aged son. As the legend goes, Teressa mixed the wings with cayenne hot sauce, and served the newfound American delicacy over celery sticks and blue cheese. Before Teressa made her legendary invention,
Today, the Anchor Bar sells over 70,000 pounds
chicken wings were discarded as scrap meat.
of Buffalo wings per month. Dominos says more
They only cost five cents per pound at that time.
than 1/3 of their customers order wings. Hooters
Her “discovery” dovetailed with a revolutionary
claims to sell over 30 million pounds of chicken
time for Buffalo; in the 1960s the rust-belt city
wings per year. July 29 has been designated as
had been declared an international seaport and
the official “Chicken Wing Day” and Buffalo cel-
was attempting a revival. To locals, Buffalo was
ebrates an annual Buffalo Wing Festival where
back on the map. The newly invented food was
tens of thousands attend the event.
part of the excitement. The snack became a local obsession. However, the broader growth of Buffalo wings did not begin to take off until 1975. Retirees from cold and snowy Buffalo tended to migrate to South Florida. These retirees could not live a life void
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of their favorite bar snack, so Edmund J. Hauk, a former Buffalo resident, opened the Wings N’ Curls chain in Florida. In January 1979, Craig Claiborne and Pierre Franey, high-profile food writers for the New York Times Magazine, wrote a recipe page on wings. This first national article was followed by many others. Then in 1983, Hooters opened; its menu revolved around Buffalo wings. Soon other chain restaurants like Dominos and Pizza Hut added wings to their menus.
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MARFA TEXAS MEETS MINIMALISM 12 AMERICAN PATRIOT
While driving along Route 90 through the barren west Texas desert, drivers might be surprised to spot a Prada store along the side of the road. Turns out it’s not actually a real store, but a pop art installation. The scene is fitting for the area because Marfa TX has become the hip new spot to view world-class minimalist art. Marfa was a small ranching community in
Judd’s presence and influence turned the
the middle of the desert approximately 200
small town into a magnet for artists; a place
miles southeast of El Paso. At one time, it
for innovative artwork within a town that still
was known only for its military base built
retains its traditional western feel. A new
in 1942. After WWII had ended, the base
wave of artists is moving to Marfa to live
was mothballed. In 1977, Donald Judd, the
and work. As a result, new gallery spaces
minimalist American artist, auctioned off
are opening in the downtown area. There is
twenty of his most famed pieces and used
a writers-in-residency program, a Marfa the-
the money to move his work from New York
ater group, and a multi-functional art space
City to Marfa. He turned the space into a
called Ballroom Marfa has begun to show art
museum and workshop.
films, host musical performances, and exhibit other art installations. Ballroom Marfa
In 1986, the Chinati Foundation, a contem-
is a nice combination of old and new: the
porary art museum based on the Judd’s ideas,
former western dance hall is a space for the
was opened on the site of the airbase. The
most modern of art but is located near an
goal was and is to preserve and present to
old-fashion general store.
the public permanent large-scale installations by a limited number of artists including Judd,
Outside of Donald Judd and modern art,
Donald Flavin and John Chamberlain. The
Marfa may be most famous for the mysterious
Chinati Foundation now occupies ten build-
Marfa lights, visible every clear night between
ings. Since Judd’s death in 1994, the Chinati
Marfa and the Paisano Pass when one is fac-
Foundation and the Judd Foundation, which
ing southwest toward the Chinati Mountains.
preserves his living quarters, ranch and workspaces, have kept Judd’s vision alive.
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“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.” - SAM KEEN PROFESSOR, PHILOSOPHER, EDITOR AND CONSULTANT
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1996. The opening of the Centennial Olympic Games took place in Atlanta. A record 197 nations took part and Muhammad Ali thrilled the crowd by lighting the Olympic torch. During the seventeen days of the Games, more than 2 million visitors came to the city and 3.5 billion watched on television. In the process, Atlanta changed dramatically, as new sports venues were built, park space was created, sidewalks and streets were improved, and housing upgraded. The spectacle was marred somewhat by criticism of over-commercialism and by a bomb in Olympic Park that killed one spectator. WATCH MUHAMMED ALI LIGHT THE TORCH AMERICAN PATRIOT 15
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