'MY AMERICA, THE BRAVE'
A PATRIOTIC SONG FOR ALL GENERATIONS
'MY AMERICA, THE BRAVE'
A PATRIOTIC SONG FOR ALL GENERATIONS
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Launched July 4, 2026 — In Honor of a Sovereign Legacy of Courage, Vigor, and Divine Preservation.
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CELEBRATING 250 YEARS! - TRUE AMERICAN HISTORY REMEMBERED
A LEGACY CARRIED THROUGH THIS MUSIC
WHY I WROTE 'MY AMERICA, THE BRAVE'...
There are voices from our historic past that need to be heard—and they are coming through my heart into song.
When I wrote “My America, The Brave,” I felt the weight of generations who believed in something greater than themselves, and who were willing to risk everything for it. In a beautiful, full-circle moment of creative destiny, I am directly connected to the creation of "America the Beautiful" through my maternal cousin, Katharine Lee Bates, who wrote its legendary words. My DNA literally carries the hereditary spark of one of our nation's most beloved anthems.
My middle name, Elizabeth, carries an extraordinary legacy of fierce, independent leadership. On my father’s side, it connects me straight to my 7th great-grandmother, Nanye-hi (Nancy Ward), the legendary Ghigau ("Beloved Woman") of the Cherokee Nation. Armed with an equal vote and veto power within the Council of Chiefs, she stood as a towering diplomatic force and critical ally during the American Revolution, risking tribal lines to save pioneer lives.
That sovereign spirit was passed to her daughter, Elizabeth "Betsy" Ward, who navigated the high-stakes borderlands between the Cherokee and American worlds. It is beautifully balanced by my 3x great-grandmother, Elizabeth Reese, a brave 17-year-old Welsh immigrant who had the sheer vigor to cross the Atlantic Ocean entirely by herself in 1866 and physically walk nearly 1,000 miles across the burning plains.
This song was forged in the bloodlines of true American protectors. On my mother’s side, my ancestors stood at the very baseline of the Revolution. My 5x great-grandfather, Ensign James Blodgett, dropped his plow and marched onto the battlefields of 1775 alongside his teenage sons, while our family's Drinkwater Privateer Captains weaponized civilian fishing schooners, mounting cannons to ambush British warships along the freezing coast of Maine.
From my 2x great-grandfather George Mathias Harman surviving a catastrophic mid-ocean ship fire in 1859, to my great-grandmother Martha Drucilla Williams raising seventeen children in the raw Idaho sagebrush, that unstoppable grit has never faded. It lived vibrantly in my own father, Daniel Ray Harman, who in 1971 became Utah’s first successful living kidney transplant donor to save his sister's life.
This extraordinary heritage lives in me every single day. I am deeply grateful to be connected to such a powerful lineage of builders, protectors, and sovereign leaders. This single is my offering to them—and a reminder to you that the courage, grit, and unbreakable spirit that built this nation still runs through our veins today.
The stories of our privateers, Cherokee diplomats, and Welsh walkers are grander than a single page can hold!
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