God bless the Charlie Daniels Band for keeping pride in America alive during the dark and hopeless Carter years. Look at one of the lines from the song "In America" where Charlie observes that "and a lot of people [are] sayin' that America's fixin' to fall." It's hard to remember that that really was the feeling that I had as a teenager during that era. I remember the Carter ethos that the winds of historical change favored socialism and communism - in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Europe - and that realism required a recognition that capitalism and limited government were a spent force. Now, twenty-years later, we're still here, and it was the USSR that was "fixin to fall" onto the ash-heap of history. Consider also how fortunate we are as a nation to have September 11 happen after the Reagan revival, instead of during the Carter administration.