I find myself at times when I hear the music of some point of disappointment or stress that I had experienced in the past. The song composer was a poet named Katharine Lee Bates. In 1925 she wrote the song based on her inspirations at Pikes Peak. This I relate to relieving stress or disappointment because the tune is for Celebrating for our love of country as well as the dream of patriotism. I can conclude that the song had an impact on my life during the time of stress or discomfort. It mentally would bring me back to the sense of fundamental faith in not myself but of what the words mean human brotherhood. In the Military, we service not for only ourselves but for brotherhood ("America the Beautiful, 1893," …show more content…
I’m not sure if I would have selected a different form of music or selected the same one while growing up. What I do realize is that we need some facet to assist us in times of need; one never really knows the music one will choose unless we are exposed to it. I can say that I gravitate to this music because I experience the effects it had on my father and how it was used. The music and the manner that which they portrayed it while raising me instilled a moral compass of motivation and inspiration. What this compass also provided was the sense of patriotism that was rooted inside. This music was used for many forms of inspirations either on the battlefield or for that situational