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Americans of most economic classes are experiencing difficulty in climbing the economic ladder . We pay tribute to Americans of Hispanic descent , but especially to the culture and the values that bred in men and women like yourselves a respect for family , work , neighborhood , and religion , a belief in duty to God and country and fellow man . Up to this time , no American of European descent had ever ventured further west than Fort Mandan . While we have found that Americans of all ages and in every racial and ethnic group have , in many ways , better health today than a decade ago , there are still a number of areas where disparities exist . As an American of African ancestry and a United States Air Force retiree , I often think of those Black Angels streaking across the sky during World War II. Racism and hatred tested , boiled , chewed and spit out these black pilots , but they came away better , tougher , smarter and more determined and professional than ever . Ware 's was a Pragmatism , as was the case of so many other so-called practical-minded Americans of his generation , without a philosophical rationalization . One of the best ways , if not the best way , to overwhelm and remind Americans of something is through the press . The observer who draws his inferences from these signs will , undoubtedly , be led to the conclusion that the American of the United States contributes a much smaller portion of his income to the State than the citizen of France . Oregon elected Taiwan-born David Wu as the first Asian-American U.S. senator , and Gary Loc , an American of Chinese descent , won the contest for governor of Washington State - despite the fact that Asians make up only a small percentage of the electorate in those two states . " Part of the reason for such genocidal activity ( beginning in part with the Sand Creek Massacre ) was an attempt by the United States government , especially the military , to dispossess the Native American of land guaranteed by theTreaty of Fort Laramie , encompassing essentially the entire Great Plains .