I'm proud to be an American

[Senior Tech]

Because (fill in the blank)

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[slimwoodie]

I'm doing my part to pay every other countries bill's

[mark42202]

Because of men and women like this:

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[chillbilly]

because this country has always had the will and determination to face failure or impossible odds and overcome them for the greater good of the people.
because we are a country whose capacity for self criticism and change is allowed and embraced.

[ga-hvac-tech]

Why am I proud to be an American? Lessee:

1) It is the land of the free and the home of the brave.
2) One can speak what they will, and not fear governmental punishment for 'disagreeing'.
3) One can change their lot in life, not like many countries where a caste system guarantees your limitations before your parents are married.
4) One can practice whatever religious faith (or no faith) and not be condemned for it.
5) One can speak about one's faith w/out looking over one's shoulder and worrying.
6) One can work harder and get ahead.
7) One can choose their spouse rather than have it 'arranged'.
8) One has legal protection and 'due process' (guaranteed by the constitution), before one has their freedom removed.
9) One gets to live in the most prosperous country on earth, where we take lots of luxuries for granted that most of the folks in the world can only dream of... And you can bet your socks it comes from the free and conservative and capitalistic society we live in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
9) One can b!tch all the evening on a forum just for fun, and
10) One has the honor of joining an elite group of folks known as KA.

Anyone else care to add to this list?

[royc]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11924.htm


I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the T.V.
You hear one thing again and again
How the U.S.A. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally can't take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we can't even say the names

They sell us the President the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

[stephy]

"Doctor my eyes have seen the years through the slow prade of tears....

Tell me what is wrong..

Was I unwise to leave them open for so long"

I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN......

Stephen

[chillbilly]

His charitable acts somehow seem out of place,
With the fist marks all over his ex girlfriends face.

Read the lyrics of the Joni Mitchell song, Not To Blame on the CD, Turbulent Indigo for more insight.

[stephy]

I should have run this by you before I posted.......

The lyrics I refereed to are 37 years old.....

I'm Sorry.....

I will now go back to lurking around the general Disc........

:D

Fuzz head

[chillbilly]

I should have run this by you before I posted.......

The lyrics I refereed to are 37 years old.....

I'm Sorry.....

I will now go back to lurking around the general Disc........

:D

Fuzz head

LOL
I was posting in response to Roy. I've followed Jackson Browne his entire career. I have all of his lyrics and music. He's a great writer. Wasn't even responding to you Stephy.
No need to get all ruffled.
I was attempting to point out that the beauty of those lyrics do not mesh with the writers actions in real life.

It's easy to criticize our leaders and much harder to examine our own deeds.

[royc]

I'm proud to be an American, I'm so proud to be an American that I gave up my heritage and birthplace to be one. I became an American because I believed after reading the constitution, the greatest document ever written for the voice of freedom, that I would give my life to live in a place where my freedom was guaranteed by law. I became an American so I could shed my guilt by association, the treaded sign of evil that was placed on me by birth.

48 years later, I see the same forces rearing their uglyness, the same speeches, the same corporatism(facism),the same laws claiming to protect us written without the consend of the people. I know we dont all agree on our political views, or religious ideas, but I beg of you, open your eyes wide and see what is happening. Dont let this country be taken from us, by liars, usurpers, treasoners and traitors to our constitution.

I dont want my children one day comming to me, like I did with my parents, and ask..

Why Did You Let This Happen

Roy

[royc]

LOL
I was posting in response to Roy. I've followed Jackson Browne his entire career. I have all of his lyrics and music. He's a great writer. Wasn't even responding to you Stephy.
No need to get all ruffled.
I was attempting to point out that the beauty of those lyrics do not mesh with the writers actions in real life.

It's easy to criticize our leaders and much harder to examine our own deeds.


The people that wrote our constitution werent all what we wanted them to be, does that diminish anything written within it??

Roy

[chillbilly]

The people that wrote our constitution werent all what we wanted them to be, does that diminish anything written within it??

Roy

No Roy, it doesn't.
And it doesn't mean that they achieved the standards about which they themselves wrote either.
I guess what I'm saying is that talk is cheap.
Apathy and greed are far more prevalent in today's world than positive activism and charity.
That song was written during the Reagan administration and it's great if you're an activist who believes that the world could somehow be perfect.
In a real world, the writer and his subjects are anything but, and the "men in the shadows" that he refers to are not nearly as sinister as he represents them to be.