 It was May 21, 1944, when one American spoke these powerful words, We have chose America. For this reason we have a right to consider ourselves a picked group, a group of those who had the courage to break from the past and to brave the dangers and loneliness of a strange land. What was the object that nerved us to make this choice? We sought liberty, freedom from oppression, freedom from want, freedom to be ourselves. I am an American.