Ryan Beattie
10/11/11
Authors note; the reason I wrote what wrote is because it think it’s disrespectful to not be proud of the country you live (quote in third paragraph is from the deck of the U.S.S Midway in San Diego)
Yes I’m proud of my country and I’ll always be. I mean if you’re not why are you still living here then? I can name at least twelve people that I know that are or were in the military. So you’re not proud of them. If we didn’t have brave those men and women that defend our country, neither I nor you would be here right now. How can you be not proud of that? I believe that if you aren’t proud of America you should at least be proud of the men and women who defended it.
Sure we have been wars but name one country that hasn’t. Yes we did kill many Japanese Civilians with the Atom Bomb but they killed a lot of our soldiers/civilians in the bombings of Pearl Harbor. Again on 9/11 we were attacked and we when in to war several thousands were kill and we were criticized for kill some of their civilians in the mission and we get criticized for it. Why? Yeah are government is have a rough time but whose isn’t right know. At least were not totally out of money not yet at least.
When America was started we were under rule from the British Government. We fought a war for freedom, a bunch of farms and country man stood up to empire much larger than ours and we fought back. Our freedom has been challenged over the years but the brave men and women fought back. In every war we fought “all gave some, some gave all”. So to the people who are still not proud of this country. I would like you to go up to someone who has lost a family member or a close friend and say “I’m not proud of this country” How bad would feel then?
I not saying you need to be a full blown patriot by you at least need to proud of this country. It doesn’t need to be a lot just enough to make people around you proud of America and people around them proud and so on and so forth. God Bless America.
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