Are you patriotic? What does being patriotic mean to you?
Yes. If you cut me, I bleed red, white, and blue.
Every male in my family served. My uncle flew the last mission over Tokyo. My father helped develop the top-secret Radio Proximity Fuse that stopped the V1, V2, and Kamikaze planes.
I stand for the National Anthem, and if in public, I sing loud enough that people join me.
I’m proud of the USA, warts and all. I suffer through the crap administrations and rejoice in the good ones. I support them all and try to give them respect. If I can’t do that, I give them restraint.
I’m a student of history, and I know what we’ve done around the world. While a lot of blood was shed, we were mostly on the right side. If Congress had gotten out of the way, some of the situations we were in would have been over faster, or wouldn’t have happened.
So Hell yes, I’m Patriotic and it pisses me off when ingrates take a knee or talk shit about the flag when they are representing our country.
Delusions of Adequacy 
Yeah, I guess I am . . . did 24 years’ service to it in the USN.
Problem is, tho, that one can love his native land but be disgusted by many with whom he shares it.
Bottom line, ya gotta stand for somethin or you have no ethics, no honor, no code, no raison d’etre. Ergo, had I been born and raised in Scotland, I’d very likely be a patriotic Scot today.
Murka ain’t too bad, ‘cept for the people who’ve been runnin it for most of the past quarter century.
I’ve set foot in more’n a dozen other countries, some nice and some not so nice, but always felt good ’bout comin home. Spent 8 years in the Philippines. Good years. Wouldn’t wanna call it home, tho.
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