Why I love America essay " The united states of America " -- Only to utter these five words induces my heart to swell with pride. For 244 years we have suffered as the United States of America. Through trials and hardships, during the civil war, through the"cold war," through military conflicts, against enemies from without and against enemies from within; among the remaining states of the Earth, that the united states remain freedom's brightest hope. As well as also the liberty we now enjoy has not come without a cost -- a very terrific price. Over the long course of our country's existence greater than 1,300,000 women and men have put down their lives at liberty's change; individuals who, by the language of Abraham Lincoln, gave"the last full measure of loyalty." Oh, what a price was paid for our freedom! And beyond the cost of those who offered themselves up in freedom's cause, there is the cost paid by those mothers and dads, brothers