ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA - Part One: Ribbons of Steel
Length: 8:42
Description: Once we were proud nation.. there was nothing we couldn't do, or accomplish.
There was noting that we couldn't manufacture for ourselves. This was the American Spirit. It was what made this country the envy of every nation in the world.
Now, as one TV commentator put it, "We have become suicidally arrogant ... we have the attitude that there isn't anything anyone won't sell us."
It has been argued that "America holds no resemblance to the once great nation for which our forebears fought and died. Given the rapidity with which America has forsaken its heritage, can you imagine what it will look like 50 years from now?" - Chuck Baldwin
Once can only wonder. But, Once Upon A Time In America, it was truly a great and promising place to be.
Film Clip - Southern Pacific Cab Forward Collection
Southern Pacific Archives
Pentrex Videos/Pentrex Media Group
http://pentrex.com/
Photos
Jack Delano
U.S. Office of War Information Collection
Library of Congress - Documenting America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/fsowhome.html
Music
fanfare for the common man
Aaron Copeland
railroad song
Jim Croce
railroad blues
Woody Guthrie
daddy was a railroad man
Box Car Willie
john henry/worried blues
Doc and Merle Watson
railroad song (reprise)
conceived and produced by Dale Caruso
1940s American Spirit Railroads American Worker
Author: dalecaruso
Source: YouTube
