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The Impossible Dream follows the stories of American citizens from around the nation, approaching the 250th anniversary of America. They explore what it means to be American while overcoming their unique challenges, acting out of the responsibility that they can - and must - follow the American Dream to build a future for coming generations. From ranchers to coffee shop owners, they show that the hope and beliefs that built this nation are still alive today. In this land of opportunity, through hard work and God's help, nothing is impossible.
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00:10there comes a moment for every nation that is a crisis point the time when the majority
00:18arises that does not have faith in the principles and the progress of their society and now on the
00:25250th birthday of the United States we are at the break we are just three percentage points away
00:3947% of Americans think the American dream is dead 47% that's almost half that's a very hard kind
00:47of
00:47problem to combat because it's a general impression too often people want to look back at American
00:56history and give you the red white and blue they don't want to give you the bloodshed they don't
01:00want to give you the flaws but that's not what we were to create Benjamin Franklin said it's a
01:05republic if you can keep it what we have here is worth fighting for we're not just going to sustain
01:11something but we're actually going to make it better than it was before and you give somebody
01:16hope you give them a sliver of hope you created something that might not be able to be stopped
01:27the soldiers say America is heaven when you go to heaven that's how the Americans are
01:41no I didn't even after I got married I didn't have plumbing no
01:48you process statewide from Texas to Oklahoma like all right I'm home let's get to work
02:00for every firefighter saving a person from the fire it's what we live for right we call it grab
02:09this is our story it's the American story the next 250 years start with you
02:20me
02:25you
02:27you
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