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Greatness Is Not A Given: 'America The Beautiful' Asks How We Can Do Better

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A view of Pikes Peak from the Carroll Lakes, circa 1925. Katharine Lee Bates' trip up the Colorado mountain inspired her poem "America," later to become the song "America the Beautiful." (Courtesy of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)
A view of Pikes Peak from the Carroll Lakes, circa 1925. Katharine Lee Bates' trip up the Colorado mountain inspired her poem "America," later to become the song "America the Beautiful." (Courtesy of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum)

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