So yes—I will stand. I will stand not because my country is perfect, but because I refuse to give up on what it was meant to be. I will stand for the mothers who raised soldiers and the fathers who taught freedom isn’t free. I will stand for the kids in public schools who recite the Pledge with voices soft and eyes wide. I will stand for the broken-hearted, the still-trying, the ones who remember, and the ones who dream. Because this country, for all its cracks, is still mine. Still yours. Still ours. And the music? The music still plays— waiting for all of us to stop shouting long enough to sing. LTKHome LTKStyleTip LTKOver40