We will tell the story in two parts. Here is Kay Gallant with the first part of our story.

VOA: special.2009.05.23

It is likely that the history of our own country may offer fresh examples to teach this truth to future ages."

VOA: special.2009.04.16

"Standing on the steps of the Capitol will be a man whose story reflects the enduring promise of our land.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

But, the space shuttle program has come to represent the success,and tragedy, of discovery at the limits of our world.

VOA: special.2011.07.27

"At the rate we're going,we are expected to spend one-fifth of our economy on health care within a decade.

VOA: special.2009.05.15

When my mother and grandmother told the story of our births, it was mostly of how Caroline had refused to breathe.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

You come from every corner of our country -- from privilege and from poverty, from cities and small towns.

VOA: special.2010.05.28

Our spending has caught up with us, and our debt will soon eclipse the entire size of our entire economy.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

The German Army, and the German people, are feeling the ever-increasing might of our fighting men and of the Allied armies.

VOA: special.2011.07.07

A carbon footprint is the amount of carbon dioxide pollution that we produce as a result of our activities.

VOA: special.2011.04.05

Listen again next week for the final part of our story told in Special English on the Voice of America.

VOA: special.2009.07.18

He wanted to recognize the people who have created what he called "the most popular music of our time."

VOA: special.2009.10.19

"About half of our business is done in the last quarter of the year, in the last three months.

VOA: special.2009.12.25

Mars Day at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum in Washington is a celebration of our solar system's most famous planet.

VOA: special.2010.07.28