We the People of the United States
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Land of the Free ~ Home of the Brave
~TRAILWORD ~
What began so catastrophically on the morning of September 11th, 2001, propelled a
remarkable and serendipitous journey all about US—We the People of the United States.
The trip has been tantamount to piecing together an enormous jigsaw puzzle without the
benefit of seeing the whole picture from the beginning. Over the passing years, varied
elements and diverse components came into view which have seemingly inserted and
assembled themselves together with willful determination. The combined effect of the
eclectic and evolutionary process is one of dynamic synergy derived through united
integration. The whole is much greater, and far more inclusively empowering, than the
sum of the great many parts.
9/11, the Attack on Freedom, challenges each one of us to see large, and then larger still,
again and again…and yet again. Envisioned is an open space, master planned, mixed use
campus park community of eight towering buildings, centered by a multi-purpose
indoor/outdoor football stadium, based on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s timely,
and timeless, Four Freedoms in union with American free enterprise. In its entirety, the
multi-faceted/multi-dimensional complex would constitute a monumental and strategic
global confluence of education, research, commerce, recreation, sports and entertainment.
The development of NFB@AAP would most assuredly generate jobs—thousands upon
thousands, tens of thousands and eventually hundreds of thousands—from long term
construction employment to permanent career path positions. Fully operational with a
kaleidoscopic cornucopia of permanent towering tenants and employees, America’s
Freedom Bowl Enterprise, a revolutionary stand alone project/phenomenon, would become
an enormously energetic economic engine with unlimited power for the entire nation at
large because We the People are free.
As gravity is a function of mass, then it follows that the greater the mass, the greater, and
the more irresistible, will be the force of attraction. It is eagerly anticipated that the
massive and majestic Freedom Bowl, America’s National Stadium, will be booked, and
packed, year-in, year-out and year-round for athletic events, music concerts and more.
All through the post-9/11 era, there has been a constant push from behind and a consistent
pull from before. I am confined, constrained and compelled to conclude that it was, and is,
from YTP/You the People, because NFB@AAP truly is of the people, by the people and
for the people—co-equal collaborators, one-and-all, are We. Freedom Place, USA, surely
is trail’s end for America’s Grand Freedom Bowl Expedition.
If We the Team build it—NFB@AAP—We the People will come.
~Russ Thorson, USA, 2014
~ The Revelation of Excellence ~
EXCEPTIONAL REPUBLIC ON THE MOVE
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The WREATH ~ The FIELD ~ The CROWN
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The GLORIOUS GREENS
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The COMMON ~ The ARCS ~ The PALISADE
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Of
GREAT AMERICA
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The TRAILS ~ The GARDENS ~ The ARBORS
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EXTRAORDINARY REVOLUTION IN MOTION
~ The Excellence of Resurrection ~
“We stand for freedom.
That is our conviction for ourselves;
that is our only commitment to others.”
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963)
Exploration Yields Discovery ~ Heritage Meets Challenge
NFB@AAP
STRATEGIC ELEMENTS & INTEGRAL COMPONENTS
ALL AMERICA PARK – An indomitable living legacy of liberation, an ever-endless
wilderness of wonder…of our history, by our people, for our future: A master planned, open
space, mixed use campus park complex, formed and focused as a strategic global confluence
for education, research, commerce, recreation, athletics and entertainment. “The farther
backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.” – Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
made an honorary U.S. citizen by act of Congress and whose mother was an American.
ARBORS OF ABUNDANCE – Atop each of the Arches of Joy will be an arbor, covered in
flowering vines, for picnicking, sightseeing and observation: Arbor of Trust – Atlantic Arch,
Arbor of Peace – Pacific Arch, Arbor of Friendship – Canada Arch, and Arbor of Prosperity
– Mexico Arch.
ARCHES OF JOY – All four arches are to stand for the joy of coming, the joy of staying and
the joy of going—welcoming, entertaining and infusing one-and-all from around the world:
Atlantic Arch, Pacific Arch, Canada Arch and Mexico Arch. Each arch joins two of the eight
Pillars of Humanity and will be positioned midway between Great America Dreamway and
Hub-Of-The-World Greatway, All America Park’s outer perimeter. See Elliptical Roadways.
ARMED FORCES ESPLANADE – A wide apron/plaza (not shown) completely surrounding
the Bowl and the eight ground level Victory Gates with a run-and-read jogging track around
the outer edge featuring George Washington’s (1732-1799) farewell address, which was read
aloud in Congress annually into the 1850’s, imbedded in the track’s surface. The inner half
of the Esplanade will be arbor and vine covered, with the arbor angled upward to the
Freedom Bowl’s Escalade of Excellence. See National Wreath of Remembrance and Hope.
Monument Gates: The eight gates shown on the diagram will be free-standing monuments,
open 24/7 and never closed for as long as America shall be, for entrance up and onto the
Esplanade, which will be raised a full storey, approximately ten feet above Patriots Common,
lifted up in cheerful and thankful honor of the uniformed services and all who dress to serve
one-and-all-of-US. Gaps between gates will feature appropriate sculptured art in relief on
the wall faces of cut stone.
CANADA ARCH GARDENS – Around the bases of the Canada Arch pillars the flags and seals
of Canada’s ten provinces and three territories will be permanently displayed in unique
separate gardens, including relevant facts and historical information for each. Arch, arbor,
pillars and gardens will be designed by Canadian artists, sculptors, architects and landscape
architects.
CITIZENS UNIFIED PROMENADE – A wide continuous and unbroken walkway all around
the top rim of the Bowl, featuring FDR’s third inaugural address imbedded in a run-and-read
jogging track. Four pedestrian bridges—each of a worthy length—span Patriots Common,
connecting the Promenade with the Free Enterprise towers at the Arcadium. (Anticipated
terms of endearment: The “CUP” and the “Prom”.) See Peoples Crown of Common Glory.
COLONNADE OF CHAMPIONS – An eternal league of champions—columns and citizens—
in fraternal fellowship, upholding America and uplifting the American people. A continuous
and unbroken circle of spaced columns, standing in the Gardens of Generation, one hundred
feet tall, each one representing a city, county or community. At the base of each column will
be displayed the appropriate seal, relevant information and historical facts in a one-of-kind
garden setting. Individual designs to be selected by nationwide open competition for subject,
creativity, design and sponsorship. See Winners Circle.
CONSTITUTION PALISADE – A natural-state wilderness reserve, continuous and unbroken,
bounded by Grand Union Cavalcade on the inside and Great America Dreamway along the
outer edge. The four north-south, and east-west roadways will transit beneath the Palisade
through tunnels. There will be intertwining trails for hiking, jogging, bicycling, and
horseback riding. The main path, THE FRAMERS’S TRAILWAY, will feature the United
States Constitution and several of the amendments chiseled into the face of cut stone, as well
as numerous significant quotations.
CONSTITUTION PALISADE TUNNELS – The four connecting roadways, Heritage
Boulevard, Challenge Avenue, Exploration Drive and Discovery Road, will transit beneath
the Palisade through tunnels between Great America Dreamway and Grand Union
Cavalcade. Tunnels to be named as follows: Tunnel of Enrichment, Tunnel of
Encouragement, Tunnel of Enchantment and Tunnel of Enlightenment.
CROSSOVER TRAILS – The north-south and east-west roadways will each have wide center
median greenbelts between United States Victoryway and Grand Union Cavalcade, and
leading into the Park from Hub-Of-The-World Greatway to Great America Dreamway, with
individually unique trails for walking, running, bicycling and horseback riding.
Trails through the Gardens of Generation: Trail of Wonderment – Exploration Drive, Trail
of Inspiration – Challenge Avenue, Trail of Revelation – Discovery Road, and Trail of
Fulfillment – Heritage Boulevard.
Great America Trails leading into All America Park: Great Western Trail, Great Eastern
Trail, Great Northern Trail, and Great Southern Trail. By the end of this century these trails
could be extended coast-to-coast and border-to-border to form a nationwide network.
Trail crossings to be developed as follows: Approaching the crossing, each trail—crossover
and elliptical—will rise gracefully in slope to form a spacious plateau above the vehicle
intersection. The vehicular roadways will descend gradually to a semi-subterranean
intersection. Each plateau, sixteen total, will feature an arbor which will eventually be
engulfed with an enormously beautiful array of flowering vines. Each arbor will be
designated for a member of a sixteen-team major intercollegiate host conference and
designed according to each institution’s directive. Once fully covered, each arbor, an
outdoor open air atrium of glory, will be known as The Glorium.
ELLIPTICAL ROADWAYS – The four concentric, continuous and unbroken roadways will
each have a wide center median greenbelt and trail: 1) United States Victoryway; 2) Grand
Union Cavalcade—a cavalcade can be both a parade of people and a series of dramatic
events; 3) Great America Dreamway (not shown); and 4) Hub-Of-The-World Greatway (not
shown), All America Park’s outer perimeter adjacent to the Four Arcs Of Freedom.
ELLIPTICAL TRAILS – The four elliptical roadways will each have a continuous and
unbroken trail for walking, jogging, bicycling, and horseback riding through the center
median greenbelt: 1) U.S. Victoryway – The Commanders-in-Chief Trail—featuring a
sectional garden, with significant facts and information, to honor each American president in
order of succession; 2) Grand Union Cavalcade – The United Vanguard Trail, with a
sectional garden for each state, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories—featuring flag,
seal and facts—laid around in chronological order of admission, establishment or acquisition;
3) Great America Dreamway – Trail of the First Peoples, with a sectional garden for each of
the indigenous peoples of the United States, featuring specific information about every native
American tribe; and 4) Hub-Of-The-World Greatway, All America Park’s outer perimeter –
Trail of the Nations, with a sectional garden for every nation in the world, featuring flag, seal
and facts.
ESCALADE OF EXCELLENCE – A mid-level concourse and wide exterior balcony,
continuous and unbroken, with a run-and-read jogging track and President Dwight
Eisenhower’s (1890-1969) farewell address imbedded in the running surface. “Perfection is
not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.” – Vince Lombardi (19131970) football coach.
EVIDENCE IN PLAIN SIGHT DEMANDS A VERDICT – When 9/11 went down, three
words went up everywhere: GOD BLESS AMERICA! What if He is taking US at our
word? Here, then, is the question: Could America’s Freedom Bowl Enterprise and His Will
be One—in the same sense that was the founding of America, as many of the Founders then
believed? His fingerprints appear to be all over it. “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous
in our eyes.” – Psalm 118:23.
Chock full of America’s superabundant heritage, We the People are well-equipped to
make this adventuresome and challenging journey from start to finish. Good fortune and
Godspeed to one-and-all-of-US on our historic and strategic expedition of extreme
excellence for freedom to all peoples of the world.
—IN GOD WE TRUST—
Our National Motto Raised: Twin one hundred foot diameter discs, a super-enlarged replica
of the commemorative quarter in bold relief on appropriate metal, one for each side, for the
state in which the National Freedom Bowl development is located (see Freedom Place,
USA), to be placed prominently in the “I Have A Dream…” Garden, and raised the
equivalent of a standard quarter’s thickness above the immediately surrounding ground.
FOUR ARCS OF FREEDOM – Four equal arcs (not shown), bounded by Great America
Dreamway and Hub-Of-The-World Greatway, and separated by the four north-south and
east-west roadways. The Four Arcs of Freedom will be designated specifically for: 1)
Education – The University Campus at All America Park (land to be donated by GAFCi); 2)
Research; 3) Recreational sports complex, centered by a public swimming lagoon and worldclass Olympic style aquatic training center, surrounded by clusters of soccer and baseball
fields, plus tennis, basketball and volleyball courts; and 4) Four super-star luxury hotels –
The Patriot, Freedom Guardian, Sterling Gridiron and Manifest Destiny, and four high-rise
residential condominiums. Arcs Two and Four can be subdivided and sold for individual
design and development.
Escapade of Exultation: Topography permitting, an irregular elliptical canal, tree-lined,
continuous and unbroken, meandering through the Four Arcs of Freedom, for rowboats,
canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and paddle boats (no motorized vessels).
FOUR FREEDOMS – On January 6th, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945),
before a joint session of Congress assembled for the State of the Union Address, presented
his timely, and timeless, Four Freedoms: Freedom of Speech and Expression, Freedom of
Religion, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. During the delivery of this message,
President Roosevelt declared clearly, determinedly and unequivocally…
“Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere.”
In so purposefully proclaiming with such economy of speech, FDR reached around the world
in all directions to all peoples for all time. Even though the servant is gone, the words of the
servant continue to serve. This singular sentence may very well be freedom’s seminal
statement, and arguably the most significant utterance of universal inclusiveness ever spoken
by a sitting American president—immediately and perpetually relevant. These eight
immortal words of certitude will appear permanently in the border on both sides of United
Heroes Field between the goal lines. See Thirteen and United Heroes Field.
FREEDOM CLASSIC – Rotated among the three major service academies on a revolving three
year cycle: Army-Navy, Navy-Air Force, Air Force-Army. Each academy team plays two
out of every three years in the Freedom Bowl which allows traditional series—Army-Navy at
neutral sites and Air Force-Army/Navy home-and-home—two out of three years. Annual
winners to receive the prestigious Star-Spangled Shield Freedom Cup trophy. Each winning
team will take home a replica of the original which will remain at the National Freedom
Bowl and will be large enough to accommodate one hundred inscribed winners.
FREEDOM PLACE ~ U!S!A! – The place where the Freedom Bowl rises in the Land of the
Free and the Home of the Brave. (If the world were flat, NFB@AAP, Freedom’s Mighty
Castle—The House of 150,000 Thrones, would be the center of the Earth, because freedom is
humanity’s manifest destiny.) The Freedom Bowl, a.k.a., America House, is destined to
become the grand and great Hub-of-the-World.
“Freedom lies in being bold.” – Robert Frost (1874-1965) American poet.
GAFCi/GREAT AMERICA FREEDOM CORPS, inc. – Not a corporation, but the Corps
incorporated, a nationwide corps of freewill investor-patriots. Those who have given the gift
of life, their own—with or without uniform—on behalf of others for freedom and democracy,
at home and abroad, never cease giving. We who remain, and those who follow, are the
most fortunate of beneficiaries, forever endowed. “To whom much is given…much will be
required.” – Luke 12:48. We the People of the Corps, being fully persuaded in mind, and in
heart, that the down payment has been paid, more than full, with the pure and precious blood
of all who have made the ultimate sacrifice, beginning with America’s Revolutionary War
and continuing through the Attack on Freedom and beyond, will gladly lay down our lives
without reservation—whatever it takes for whatever is required—one day at a time, until we
have no more days, for the permanent establishment and the perpetual success of America’s
Freedom Bowl Enterprise. This indeed We the People of the United States will most
certainly do, for the inestimable honor of, and for the unending homage to our…
~ NATIONAL FREEDOM BOWL FOUNDERS ~
One-And-All Who Never Returned From Freedom’s Fight
…and thus will We fulfill with joy and thanksgiving their sacred mission.
Hat-in-the-Ring Patriots – The first thirty million Investor-Patriots:
Ten million for faith, ten million for hope, and ten million for love of Country.
(Let US not be surprised if this is but a conservative number.)
GARDENS OF GENERATION – Four generously spacious and luxuriantly verdant plains of
heritage lying in splendorous repose between Grand Union Cavalcade and United States
Victoryway, in glorious complement to Constitution Palisade and Patriots Common,
featuring documents and orations chiseled into the face of cut stone along walking trails:
1) Declaration of Independence Garden; 2) Bill of Rights Garden; 3) Emancipation
Proclamation Garden, with the thirteenth amendment and President Abraham Lincoln’s
(1809-1865) second inaugural address; 4) “I have a dream…” Garden, Dr. Martin Luther
King’s renowned speech, because America is both a great nation and an even greater nation
still in the making. We the People are a restless and relentless work in progress.
Escapade of Empowerment: Topography permitting, an irregular elliptical canal, tree-lined,
continuous and unbroken, meandering through the four Gardens of Generation, for rowboats,
canoes, kayaks, paddle boards and paddle boats (no motorized vessels).
GRAND CENTRAL FOOTBALL TERMINAL – During World War II, New York’s Grand
Central Station handled, at times, over nine hundred train movements—arrivals and
departures were counted separately—a day. In time, due to intense nationwide appeal and
immense global popularity, the Freedom Bowl could be required to accommodate football
regularly on Thursday and Friday night, doubleheaders on Saturday and Sunday, and
frequently on Monday night. The National Freedom Bowl will be America’s Football
CAPITOL, and All America Park, the Football CAPITAL of America. In the Freedom
Bowl, every game’s a Bowl Game. From one event to the next, the Freedom Bowl will
change America—Americans bonding, and re-bonding, with our own identity—and America
will change the world.
Football City, USA—Touchdowntown, America!
GREAT AMERICA CITY ~ U!S!A! – Free range for the mind and open space for the heart.
NFB@AAP is to be a stand-alone development—out in the middle of nowhere, with plenty
of open country to create its own somewhere. Before the end of this century, Great America
City will have become a major metropolis whose residents number in the millions.
GAC/USA – Built on faith, hope and love by America’s Dream Team—We the People.
GREAT AMERICA FREEDOM KICKOFF – Featuring two nationally prominent major
intercollegiate football teams on United Heroes Field in the National Freedom Bowl at All
America Park to open the gridiron season.
GREAT AMERICA COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION – Commonwealth: A group of
people with shared interests and common goals founded on mutual trust. GACF is to be an
energetic and ongoing philanthropic thrust, initially for tuition scholarships, enabling
challenged and deserving students across America to attend a college or university of choice.
The strength and vibrancy of America’s freedom and democracy are directly dependent on
our students achieving the highest levels of post-secondary education. Ultimately, there will
be eight towering funds totaling one hundred fifty billion dollars each, four Freedom Funds
and four Enterprise Funds, and each with specific target spheres.
GREAT AMERICA FREEDOM POPS ORCHESTRA – GAFPO will present quarterly
concerts, televised nationwide.
Annual Choral Extravaganza: Televised live worldwide, the All America Chorale, an
assemblage of massed choirs—high school, academy, college and university, religious and
secular—filling the National Freedom Bowl with 150,000 choristers, accompanied by the
Freedom Pops Orchestra, will perform.
Victory at Sea: Inspiring and patriotic instrumental music composed by Richard Rodgers,
masterfully arranged and orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett, for the 1952-1953
television documentary series about World War II, will serve as the official music for
GAFPO. Every performance will feature one, or more, selection(s).
GREAT AMERICA GATHERINGS – National commemorative events and holidays will
have the Freedom Bowl in action with wondrous ceremonies and spectacular celebrations:
New Year’s Day, Presidents Day, Armed Forces Day, Memorial Day, Easter, Flag Day,
Memorial Day, The Fourth of July, Labor Day, Patriot Day – The Patriot Bowl, Veterans
Day, Thanksgiving Day – The Great America Thanksgiving Bowl, and New Year’s Eve.
GREAT AMERICA GROTTO – THUNDER & FUNder in the BUNKER DOWN UNDER – A
cavernous underground sports club for dining, dancing, games and live entertainment,
centered beneath the fifty-yard line; a.k.a., Cave of the Courageous & Vault of the Victors!
GREAT AMERICA THANKSGIVING BOWL – Featuring two nationally prominent major
intercollegiate football teams on Thanksgiving Day.
MANIFEST DESTINY – “FREEDOM IS HUMANITY’S MANIFEST DESTINY”. These
words will be displayed prominently and permanently over the GATE OF FREEDOM.
Similarly, over the GATE OF AMERICA will be seen,
“UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – BORN FREE, JULY 4TH, 1776”.
Over the four GATES OF THE WORLD—NORTH GATE OF THE WORLD, SOUTH
GATE OF THE WORLD, EAST GATE OF THE WORLD, WEST GATE OF THE
WORLD—connecting the pedestrian bridges to Citizens Unified Promenade will appear
these words,
“FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD – WELCOME HOME ONE-AND-ALL”.
Gate titles and mottos will be chiseled into the face of cut stone.
MEXICO ARCH GARDENS – Around the bases of the Mexico Arch pillars the flags and seals
of Mexico’s Federal District and thirty-one states will be permanently displayed in unique
and separate gardens, including relevant information and historical facts for each. Arch,
arbor, pillars and gardens will be designed by Mexican artists, sculptors, architects and
landscape architects.
NATIONAL FREEDOM BOWL – “The people are the only legitimate fountain of power.” –
James Madison (1751-1836). A multi-purpose indoor/outdoor football stadium, with
retractable roof, seating one hundred fifty thousand—unfathomable for depth, an everendless fount of our AMERICAN SPIRIT, filled to the brim event by event and season by
season, for football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, and field hockey, with concerts, festivals, and
pageants for music and the performing arts.
Twin Boulder Thresholds: A very large granite boulder is to be selected, split in two, the
inner faces smoothed and one each placed as the threshold at the Gate of Freedom and the
Gate of America. Upon the Gate of Freedom’s threshold will be inscribed these words,
“LET’S GO” – IKE, General Eisenhower’s command, giving the order for the D-Day
Invasion, June 6th, 1944. Upon the Gate of America’s threshold will be inscribed these
words, “LET’S ROLL” – FLIGHT 93, Todd Beamer’s last words before he and other
passengers on board United’s Flight 93 broke into the airliner’s cockpit to thwart the
hijackers on September 11th, 2001.
The House of ONE – We the People
Intercollegiate Host Conference: Schedules permitting, all sixteen teams could play at least
once every football season on United Heroes Field in the National Freedom Bowl—both
non-conference games and conference clashes.
NATIONAL WREATH OF REMEMBRANCE AND HOPE – The inner half of Armed
Forces Esplanade will be covered by an arbor of flowering vines, continuous and unbroken,
to honor and celebrate all those who have given their lives to win and defend our freedom at
home and abroad throughout our history, and to secure and defend the freedom of others
around the world. The arbor will slope upward toward the Bowl, connecting with the
Escalade of Excellence, providing permanent shield and perpetual shelter with a beautiful
floral display in living remembrance of generous, innumerable and unending American
sacrifice. Each of the Bowl’s eight entrance gates will have a large V-shaped opening, for
Victory, in the Wreath directly overhead. The top of each V will be crossed by the Escalade’s
façade. These eight gates of entry into the National Freedom Bowl will be known as…
The Gates of Victory. They will be numbered and situated directly across from the
Esplanade’s monument gates between Patriots Common and Armed Forces Esplanade, with
titles chiseled into the face of cut stone, as follows: First Gate of Victory across from Gate of
America, Second Gate of Victory opposite U.S. Army Gate, Third Gate of Victory opposite
U.S. Navy Gate, Fourth Gate of Victory opposite U.S. Air Force Gate, Fifth Gate of Victory
opposite U.S. Marine Corps Gate, Sixth Gate of Victory opposite National Guard Gate,
Seventh Gate of Victory opposite U.S. Coast Guard Gate, and the Eighth Gate of Victory
opposite the Gate of Freedom: 1) Because the first seven Gates of Victory are indispensable
to guarantee, preserve and protect The Eighth Gate of Freedom; and, 2) they form a
crisscrossed impenetrable united network of permanent commitment and an unbreakable
unified web of perpetual dedication by America’s ever-present and forever on duty
Freedom Force: We the People—One-and-All-of-US. Over each of the Gates of Victory
will be displayed these words, including gate titles, chiseled into the face of cut
stone…VICTORY IS OURS.
NFB@AAP – America House: There’s no place like home, because home is where the heart is.
PATRIOT BOWL – Held annually on Patriot Day, September 11th, with live telecasting
nationwide, and rotated among high school, college and pro football teams: Sunday-Monday
– pro, Tuesday-Wednesday – High school, Thursday – Pro, Friday-Saturday – college.
PATRIOTS COMMON – Continuous and unbroken green space, bounded by United States
Victoryway and Armed Forces Esplanade.
PAVILIONS FOR HEROES at ALL AMERICA PARK – Honoring those who honor US:
Prominently located in each of the Gardens of Generation will be one of four open air
columned arbors dedicated to and celebrating America’s special heroes of courage: National
Peace Officers Pavilion, National Firefighters & First Responders Pavilion, National
Teachers & Educators Pavilion and National Astronauts & Adventurers Pavilion. These will
be four separate, individually unique structures of arresting dimensions and commanding
designs, especially child-friendly and ultimately overwhelmed with colorful flowering vines.
The names of all heroes from across our vast American expanse and history who have made
the ultimate sacrifice in their respective lines of duty will be permanently displayed,
beginning with America’s beginning, and continuing in perpetuity as names are added—
through the years, through the decades and through the centuries—for as long as this great
nation shall endure.
—America’s Heroes, Living And Remembered, Always In Our Midst—
Bus Terminals: Each pavilion will serve as a terminal for the National Freedom Bowl and
will be encircled with parking reserved exclusively for school, event and tour buses.
PEOPLE’S CROWN of COMMON GLORY – “The people are the sovereign of this
country.” – John Jay (1745-1829) First Chief Justice. The framed arbor, continuous and
unbroken, shading Citizens Unified Promenade, royally engulfed with flowering vines
attracting life—birds, bees and butterflies—will form a gorgeous regal canopy of stunningly
spectacular magnitude. “The genius of the United States…is in the common people.” – Walt
Whitman (1819-1892) poet. One size fits One-and-All-of-US.
PILLARS OF HUMANITY – The eight arch pillars are so titled collectively, two each
supporting one of the Arches of Joy above the Park’s four arterial roadways between Great
America Dreamway and Hub-Of-The-World Greatway. See also Arbors of Abundance.
REVOLUTIONARY ORGAN of FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY – America truly is a living
revolution because freedom is inherently revolutionary. “We are descended in blood and
spirit from revolutionists and rebels.” – Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969). A giant
antiphonal organ with multiple ranks of gleaming pipes will stand proudly and triumphantly
above and behind both upper end zone seats, featuring a multitude of state trumpets
horizontally aimed toward each other across the length of United Heroes Field. The roof will
form a permanent shell at each end for enhanced acoustical performance and projection.
Quarterly organ concerts, with orchestral and choral accompaniment as required, are
anticipated with live televised broadcasting. See Superfortress.
Rev up the Rev…pull out all the stops for all those who never came home!
STADIUM PARKING – Limited preferred parking will be available beneath Armed Forces
Esplanade for VIP’s, luxury viewing suites and others. General parking will be dispersed
throughout the Park with subway and/or surface shuttle access for major events. However, it
is anticipated that many will prefer a walk in the Park to and from events at the Bowl.
SUPERFORTRESS – The Boeing B-29 Superfortress strategic four engine heavy bomber of
World War II fame had twin double door bomb bays in tandem. Imagine the airplane flying
upside down. Now picture the bomb bays opening. This could be how the roof opens over
Great America’s insuperable…
USA SuperFortress (a.k.a., The Fort)—Home of the 12th Superman—We the People!
Any team’s gridiron eleven will feel like supermen on United Heroes Field in the National
Freedom Bowl at All America Park…NFB@AAP—America’s shining Citadel, heroically
mounted high on the hill of the heart.
THE AMERICANS – Ready, willing and able—freedom’s super-fans! “We choose to do
these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.” – adapted from John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963). If this is not controversial, it may not be constructive, and if this is
not provocative, it might not be productive.
THE FRAMERS’S TRAILWAY – The primary trail of the entire development will meander
through Constitution Palisade, featuring the United States Constitution chiseled into the face
of cut stone along the pathway, including numerous amendments. Soil removed for towers,
stadium, underground parking and other structures will be deployed evenly around the
Palisade, raising the elevation for significant observation.
THIRTEEN: AMERICA’S ORIGINAL & FOUNDING LUCKY NUMBER – Thirteen
olonies, thirteen stars, thirteen stripes and thirteen states: To honor our nation’s founding, a
red, white and blue stripe, with stars and date, will be displayed between the college hash
marks on both thirteen yard lines similarly as shown:
* * * 7*4* * *
* * * 1776 * * *
To honor our fifty states, a tri-colored stripe will run along the fifty yard line from both side
lines to center logo. Land of the Free will appear in one end line border at the back of the
end zone and Home of the Brave in the other.
TOWERS OF TRIUMPH – GIANTS ON THE EARTH – Eight gigantic silos of strategic
energy and global outreach, heroic titans and towering trophies of American know-how and
can-do ethic, standing tall, one-and-all—Four Freedoms and Free Enterprise—inseparably
united for a better, greater, stronger and ever more prosperous United States of America.
Each super-skyscraper, singularly sculpted, stunningly statuesque—a 3V Vertical Village of
Victory—will top out at one hundred fifty stories, featuring a top floor Skyloft and rooftop
Skycourt venue for dining, dancing, live entertainment, sightseeing and observation, each of
which will rotate, completing a full circle hourly in the opposite direction from the other,
eight sets of double stacked counter-rotating carousels, exuberantly and confidently
celebrating the cumulatively productive output and prodigiously collective impact of
NFB@AAP—imagination, creativity, innovation, ingenuity—when fully operational…
>—Dynamic Synergy through United Integration—>
“All things work together for good….” – Romans 8:28
The sky-high place to hang-up for one-and-all-of-US
ARCADIUMS: Each Tower of Triumph will have a multi-level arcade atrium, showcasing a
large open-space interior, for clubs, dining, entertainment and retail. Each level will feature
an exterior arbor shaded, all-surround terrace.
SKYLATORS: Each Tower of Triumph will feature ground to Skyloft elevators behind
enclosed glass on exterior surfaces to allow sightseeing in motion…
See the Park and far beyond as you fly to the sky…
STR8UP2GO4GLORY!
UNITED HEROES FIELD – The Field derives its name in part from the inaugural grand
opening celebrations and ceremonies, and destined to become an annual extravaganza…
— HOMECOMING — The Gathering of The EAGLES —
to dedicate the Park and to commission the Bowl and the Field. On that occasion, we will
likely see gathered together as a unified congregation: Survivors from the attacks on Pearl
Harbor, the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Oklahoma City’s Murrah Federal Building, and
9/11; former POW’s, American and Allies, from World War II, Korea and Viet Nam; Middle
East veterans, American and Coalition; former freedom volunteers from America’s Civil
Rights Movement; and others from significant events and engagements.
Home Field Advantage: All football teams in America—high school, college and pro—will
be officially declared Home Teams in perpetuity on United Heroes Field/Freedom’s Field of
Dreams. Color differentiation permitting, both teams will wear home uniforms. “Home is
the nicest word there is.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867-1957) pioneer, author.
No Coffin Corners: In the outer border surrounding the playing surface, each of these words
will be individually displayed at one side of an end zone: HONOR, VALOR, BRAVERY,
and COURAGE.
Wall-to-Wall: Displayed along both sideline walls at field level will be these words:
OF OUR HEROES~BY OUR HEROES~FOR OUR HEROES—LIVING AND REMEMBERED.
One end wall will have UNITED HEROES FIELD – FREEDOM IS VICTORY, while the
opposite end wall will have UNITED HEROES FIELD – LET FREEDOM REIGN. The
original broad brush stroke V from the title card of Victory at Sea, the 1952-1953 television
documentary series about World War II, will appear on the wall in all four corners off the far
corners of the end zones. United Heroes Field and the National Freedom Bowl will be open
24/7/365+ for visitation, observation and meditation.
Honoring Our Heroes: Before the start of every game, the field of play will be vacated.
Team captains will have their squads line up along their respective sideline. In front of them
imprinted in the field’s border will be quite possibly the most important and enduring words
of FDR’s entire presidency, “Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere”…
eight immortal words that encircle the globe and envelope all peoples. The players will
remove their helmets, placing them on the border, facing their opponents across the field.
Each player will kneel on one knee and hold hands with players on either side. All in
attendance will observe a moment of silence to honor every American and our allies who
have made the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom at home and the freedom of others abroad.
Then all in attendance shall stand together, shoulder to shoulder, to sing as ONE, heart to
heart, our National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner, all four verses.
NFB@AAP Commemorative Medal: One side will bear the Four Freedoms as shown on the
next page in the World War II Victory Medal, with the words, NATIONAL FREEDOM
BOWL AT ALL AMERICA PARK, in the upper perimeter arc and, OKLAHOMA, U.S.A.
in the lower perimeter arc. In the center will be these initials, NFB@AAP. The other side
will bears these words: “FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD” in an arc above the image
of the Freedom Bowl, and “LET FREEDOM REIGN” in the arc below.
No Heads/No Tails: For the pre-game coin toss ceremony at athletic events, the game
official will ask this question of the player, “Do you call ‘Freedom’, or ‘People’?”
World War II Victory Medal: Created by act of Congress in July, 1945, and awarded to
members of the United States military, including members of the armed forces of the
Government of the Philippine Islands, who served between December 7th, 1941, and
December 31st, 1946. See original medal next page.
—NFB—
“Freedom is from within.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) American Architect
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America’s Freedom Bowl lies deeply hidden,
but quietly and determinedly germinating in
the very most secret places of the heart.
—AAP—
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Twin Towers Salute – The game official’s signal for a touchdown on United Heroes Field.
When that first-ever salute is raised, the game will stop. The nation will stop. The world
will stop. But…freedom’s cheers never will because freedom is humanity’s manifest destiny!
United Heroes Bowl – The first game played on United Heroes Field will feature two
American high school football teams, and will be played annually thereafter for as long as
America shall remain free.
Patriots Chorus – Of, By and For the American People, a.k.a., The Anthem of the Corps/
GAFCi. To be sung at the end of the first half to the tune for the Pilgrim’s Chorus from
Tannhäuser, composed by Richard Wagner. Words to be written and selected by an open
nationwide competition, focusing on themes of and related to fortitude and resolve. The
word “Alleluia”, which occurs twice, is to be replaced with “America”. Just wait until the
world hears US in full throat!
America The Beautiful – To be sung in its entirety, all four verses, at the start of the second
half, by We the People of the House. (Verse Two: Ladies only, please, the first four lines.
Verse Three: Gentlemen only, the first four lines.) News Bulletin: Americans are
becoming incessantly and incurably intoxicated by the sound of their own VOICE!
National Freedom Bowl Anthem: A.k.a., “America’s Alma Mater”, “Red, White & Blue” ,
and “Colors-r-US!”, to be sung following the end of the game to Sir Edward Elgar’s original
composition, Pomp and Circumstance March No. 1 in D, commonly known as the
“graduation march”, words to be written and selected by open nationwide competition
as follows: Verse One – “Heroes Remembered”, ending with the words, “…you are red,
white and blue.”; Verse Two – “Commitment and Dedication”, ending with the words,
“…we are red, white and blue.”; Verse Three – “On to Victory”, ending with the words,
“…we’ll be red, white and blue.” If We the People sing loud enough, long enough and often
enough, we might even get our own attention!
Freedom Ring: At game’s end for the singing of the National Freedom Bowl Anthem, all
players, coaches, game officials and cheerleaders will form a continuous and unbroken circle
centered on United Heroes Field, facing the American people with elbows locked together.
Players will place their helmets on the field at their feet, facing the people.
UHF — The Level Playing Field…Exalted High Atop The Lofty Plain Of Hearts
WINNERS CIRCLE – A continuous and unbroken elevated walking and jogging track
supported by the Colonnade of Champions. The Circle will pass through each of the four
Arcadiums at mid-level in the Four Freedoms Sentinels which will be positioned to allow for
the formation of a perfect circle. Whether a first visit, or one hundred and first, coming to
The BOWL in The PARK could be a life-changing experience…oft repeated.
“Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.”
– Leo Rosten (1908-1997) American novelist
Team USA—One-and-All-of-US—America Rising!
NFB@AAP
—The CITY at the CENTER of the CITY—
“Only he who can see the invisible can do the impossible.”
– Frank L. Gaines
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~VICTORYLOGUE ~
Never in the history of all the nations of the world has there been such a permanent
investiture of immutable authority, neither has there ever been such a perpetual
infusion of consummate power in a people never out of office as…
We the People of the United States.
These seven words of supremacy—the great and grand opening of our United States
Constitution—constitute the general statement of our impregnable and indomitable
American faith:
—WE BELIEVE IN EACH OTHER—
The common ground we seek is not to be found under foot, rather overhead. The
time has come for us to rise above ourselves. Daniel Webster, American statesman
(1782-1852) said, “We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people.”
Indeed, We the People are America’s next greatest generation.
The Attack on Freedom was, and is, and forever shall be, an absolute outrage.
If we try to be reasonable, logical and commonly sensible, we will fail miserably,
succeeding only in extending the status quo. “Sooner or later you must move down
an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only
certainty is that the trip has to be made.” – Bruce Catton (1899-1978) historian.
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NFB@AAP: What shall it be, option or obligation? We are free to be as deadly
serious about America’s Freedom Bowl Enterprise as Pearl Harbor, 9/11 and other
tragic events in our history were deadly. Therefore, it is indelibly, heavily and
unavoidably incumbent upon One-and-All-of-US to be…
outrageously courageous!
“There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human
nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.”
– Alexander Hamilton (1755-1804)
“One man with courage is a majority.” – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Therefore, it follows then that if there were two of us—you and I—we would
constitute a super-majority!
We labor not for ourselves only, but for all of America’s tomorrows.
If this were not impossible, it would not be worth doing.
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13 Year, Post 9/11 – From Here to Eternity…God Bless The USA!
The House of US
~ Commitment to Victory ~
NATIONAL
FREEDOM
BOWL
NFB@AAP
ALL
AMERICA
PARK
~ Dedication to Remembrance ~
AMERICA MORE BEAUTIFUL