Originally Posted by ylwjacket

I had written about 10 paragraphs in response to this whole thread, but I deleted them all but this:

When I took my kids to Washington DC, the first place we visited was The National Archives, to see the Declaration of Independence, the US Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. We went from there over to Arlington Cemetery, and we all shed tears at the sacrifices represented by those many little white crosses, all so neatly lined up. We wept at the grave of the pilot flying one of the planes on 9/11 (I think the one that crashed into the Pentagon). Then, we went to the Vietnam Wall, and then the Congress, then the museums.

I told them, you can disagree with your government all you want. You owe it to these people interred here to do just that. But, if we are attacked, or our 'world neighbors' are pulling their usual 'Hate the US' crap, you also owe it to these people to bow up your back and fight. Those that have come before us demand it, and we owe it to them not to let them down.

Maybe because I'm a simple Southern Boy, but we live by the God, Country, Family, in that order, creed around my house, and we don't apologize to anyone for it.

My kids know what America is all about.

Out.