I'm VERY careful with my patriotism. As a Veteran I am "allowed" to salute during the playing of our national anthem, and I do.
I believe the generation WHO FOUNDED this country are "The Greatest Generation", not the people who fought in WW2.
I enjoyed putting my flag up today.
But, patriotism can be misused...
Fresh Out Of Patriotism
http://thezman.com/wordpress/?p=14289" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;Patriotism, properly understood, is a loyalty to the citizens who came before you. The emotional draw is gratitude for what they bequeathed. That implies a duty to preserve it for the next generation. If citizenship is just a meaningless transaction, then those citizens who came before us are no more important than the next guy who wanders over the border. Put another way, according to our rulers, our ancestors are strangers and so are our decedents. What possible reason would anyone have to be loyal to strangers?
It’s actually worse than that. The reason America is descending into a transactional land of strangers...