Fraternity-Testvériség, 1987 (65. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)
1987-10-01 / 4. szám
FRATERNITY Page 9 A BICENTENNIAL ESSAY On the occasion of the Bicentennial Signing of the US Constitution, we had announced in the Fraternity, 2nd Quarter 1987, that we were inviting all our membership to enter a contest by submitting a 1,000 to 1,500-word essay on: "WHY WE SHOULD CELEBRATE THE DRAFTING & RATIFICATION OF THIS FADED PARCHMENT & THE FORMATION OF OUR FEDERAL GOVERNMENT" The first prize has been awarded to Anikó Szucs, age 11, for the following essay: "We the People of the United States," is a phrase we all hear a lot. It is the beginning of the Constitution of the United States of America. This phrase really expresses that it was not written for kings or counts or for the powerful or for the rich, but by us, the people, for everybody who is a citizen of this land. It was written by the people of this land, people like us, for the people of this land who are rich and poor alike, all the different nationalities that came here, for all the people who live in the United States of America. What is the Constitution? It is a sort of paper stating the rules we need to follow to be a nation. It is a lesson plan which we need to follow to be successful as a free nation. It is the master plan of a free land of free people who are all God's children. Without these rules we wouldn't have a nation. We would all be doing things like not accepting people from other countries, and hurting each other and other people, and not even having a plan to follow. These rules are like the Ten Commandments in the Bible. If you don't live by these rules, you wouldn't have a free nation, or life as we know it, because the Constitution gives us the kind of free life we live today in the United States. They are really the principles of our free and democratic land to live by. My father, Zoltán Szucs, is from another country. He was born in Hungary. If we wouldn't have the Constitution, and if he was not allowed to come to our free country, I would not be alive at all, and he probably wouldn't be alive either. But because we have the Constitution, and he was fighting for freedom in Hungary, he could come here and become an American like everybody else. He was 20 years old when a revolution in Hungary was going on against the Soviet Union, and he was fighting for Hungary's freedom and he was shot, so when the Soviet Union crushed the Revolution, he had to escape. This is how he came and was accepted by our free country. Many immigrants from around the world came to our country looking for freedom first of all and also for jobs, to work and live freely as human beings. It all happened because we have a Constitution guaranteeing this freedom. We would not and could not be a free country if we did not have the Constitution of the United States. Our forefathers really knew what they were doing when they wrote our Constitution, for they were creating a nation. We do have the best Constitution any nation can have, guaranteeing our freedom and democracy. It is very important for all of us to celebrate the two hundredth anniversary of our Constitution, because we are celebrating the document which made our free land possible. Today all of us have to live by the rules set for us in our Constitution, so we can maintain the freedom, the equality and democracy of our land. Without this Constitution, our lives would not be the same, and the United States of America would not be as it is today, and it would not be a free and democratic nation. We really are celebrating our freedom and our beautiful way of life when we are celebrating the Anniversary of the Constitution of the United States of America. It is for all of us, because we are the people of this land." Anikó is a member of Branch 31, and the daughter of Rev. & Mrs. Zoltán Szucs, Pastor of the Hungarian Reformed Church of Lorain, OH. ISTEN HÁTA MÖGÖTT Kányádi Sándor verse üres az istálló s a jászol idén sem lesz nálunk karácsony hiába vártok nem jönnek a három királyok sok dolga van a Teremtőnek mindenkivel O sem törődhet messzi a csillag mindenüvé nem világíthat megértjük persze mit tehetnénk de olyan sötétek az esték s a szeretetnek hiánya nagyon dideregtet előrelátó vagy, de mégis nézz Uram a hátad mögé is ott is lakoznak s örülnének a mosolyodnak
