RE: Its Good to Be Here
January 23, 2018 at 9:18 pm
(This post was last modified: January 23, 2018 at 9:27 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
If I were born anywhere else I'd have joined the service to secure citizenship, lol. For me, being proud to be an american and acknowledging our flaws goes hand in hand. The one informing the other. I feel deeply disappointed and ashamed when we return to an old mistake (or when we discover a new one) -because- I've got strong patriotic leanings. It's not the satisfaction of having an unblemished record or even of achieving our goals, really...but in the fact that the story of the US is a story of working towards those goals, and they're good ones. Here we are, chugging along..starting and stopping, sometimes going down the shittiest rabbithole. One foot in front of the other, lef....riiiight a left. If we were wiped off the map tomorrow we'd already be much more than a footnote in history, they don't call it the american century for nothin.
I hope we last longer than any other nation, last man standing territory, the United States of Earth...and even though we have a long way to go (and not just in time)..and even if, after all that time we still haven't achieved our goals..and even if we get ourselves into a seemingly endless list of shitty situations from this day to that day....so long as we're still trying......still putting that foot in front of the other one, I'd still be waving that flag and grinning like an idiot.
But hey, I'm a clueless dope..I mist up when people stand up and sing the anthem, lol. There's that rising feeling in my chest. I can understand, completely, why other people don't have the same experience and response.
(it's because they're commies who hate all goodness in the world, obvs
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I hope we last longer than any other nation, last man standing territory, the United States of Earth...and even though we have a long way to go (and not just in time)..and even if, after all that time we still haven't achieved our goals..and even if we get ourselves into a seemingly endless list of shitty situations from this day to that day....so long as we're still trying......still putting that foot in front of the other one, I'd still be waving that flag and grinning like an idiot.
But hey, I'm a clueless dope..I mist up when people stand up and sing the anthem, lol. There's that rising feeling in my chest. I can understand, completely, why other people don't have the same experience and response.
(it's because they're commies who hate all goodness in the world, obvs
)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
