Semiquincentennial

While listening to a Top 40 countdown of songs from 1981, the DJs introduced "America" by Neil Diamond . My ears perked up. I hadn't heard this song in a long time. "America" sent me back to the past but also brought me all the way back to the present. The song is an anthem, a chest-thumping joyous cry celebrating all the of people coming to this land of freedom: the United States. "On the boats…