You dare say I'm not American? On what grounds do you claim I'm not a patriot?
Is because I'm an atheist? Wanting God out of the government puts me in league with Washington, Adams, and Jefferson. If you didn't know, which seems rather likely, those were our first three presidents. Your "faith-based initiatives" put you in the company of Hitler, Ayatolla, and Bin Laden. This country was founded on the principles of freeom, equality, and education - things that you would have us believe were tools of the devil. And if it turns out that those are the work of the devil, I'll gladly ride at his right hand when the war comes. Does that
make me less American? Unlike most of your kind, I've read the Bible, and I've read the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and every major treaty and Supreme Court decision this nation has signed into law. In none of them is there a single mention of God. In none of them does it say I have to be a Christian to be an American. As much as you' like to make it so, this is not Iran.
Is it because I'm against the war? I'll defend my country when the time comes, and serve my people however I can. So when you're done picking fights in third-world countries, I'll be in your schools teaching your children. I'll be serving my country with my mind, fighting ignorance, illness, and hate with education. Like it or not, the world is round, gravity is real, and evolution is a fact.
Make no mistake, this is my country more than it will ever be yours. My family has plowed American soil since before this nation existed. My bones are buried deep in the red clay of Western North Carolina. I bled on both sides at Gettysburg, and I knew both sides of the whip on the plantation. I had an ancestor driving and being driven along the Trail of Tears. I am the living descendant of the American experience. But I too, have seen America. Maybe the reason you don't know what this country is about is that you've never been outside of your palace in Landfall. Go forth and see the things you claim to love.
I am a man born and bred of this land. I was raised to love the land. I have not just been and seen the monuments, I have gone and lived of the land. I've climbed the mountains, crossed the deserts, and waded through the swamps, all with nothing to support me but the very land I battled. My connection to this country is deeper than the birth certificate verifying my citizenship, it's in the land itself. That's what needs protecting, and not your precious trust fund. If you can't understand what our land resources mean to the American way of life, you don't deserve it anyway. There's a reason, after all, that I've been awarded on of this nation's highest civilian honors, and had a flag flown over the Capitol in my name.
This is my country, and I am proud to be an American.
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