The Fourth of Yesterday
I am not very patriotic. I mean, I'm not very spirited in much of anything, so maybe it's not that I'm not patriotic. I'm just not as struck by any of it, as others seem to be. Maybe others are just interested in the chance to make a lot of noise, and shoot a bunch of pretty lights into the sky. But some are really into America, and how great it is, and how proud they are to be here. I don't feel any of that. I'm really glad to be here, because I have a lot of opportunity that others don't (or so America says, maybe it wouldn't be so bad other places, but America likes to talk itself up. After all, after we joined both World Wars, fighting was over within a year or a few. How can you argue with that?). But I would have been just as "proud" of my country if I'd been born in France. Plus, I'd most likely know two languages, rather than one. And apparently people walk a lot in France, so I'd be a little healthier as well. The point i...