I am reserving this space for your comments and / or stories about what you think makes America great.  I'll start off.

Tom C: I believe that America's greatness lies in our founding as a nation and in our founding documents (see America's Foundation) and also in our rather unique circumstances, including location and the kind of people who were motivated to leave the old world and come to the new.  It is those circumstances, including the religious motivation of so many of our early settlers, that contribute to American exceptionalism - the fact that America is different and unique and simply can never be duplicated elsewhere.  I fear we have strayed far from our founding roots, where many of our fellow citizens wish to throw away all that makes America great and turn us back into just another European style country - the very thing most of our founders fled.  But I have hope and faith in God and I believe that America can return to its founding roots.  The key?  Revival in America.