Patriot Games
"So is wearing the flag pin good or bad? It is both; it all depends on where and why. If you're going to a Young Americans for Freedom meeting, where people think patriotism means "my country right or wrong," leave it at home and tell them about Fredrick Douglass, who wouldn't celebrate the Fourth of July while his fellow Americans were in bondage. And if you're going to a meeting of the cultural studies department at Left Wing U., where patriotism often means "my country wrong or wronger," slap it on, and tell them about Mike Christian who lay half-dead in a North Vietnamese jail, stitching an American flag.
And if anyone gives you a hard time, tell him he doesn't know what true patriotism is."
-Peter Beinart, TIME Magazine
my definition of patriotism: Keeping it real in the country that gave you everything you have.
And if anyone gives you a hard time, tell him he doesn't know what true patriotism is."
-Peter Beinart, TIME Magazine
my definition of patriotism: Keeping it real in the country that gave you everything you have.