(November 2, 2019 at 8:06 am)Gae Bolga Wrote: Travel is yet another reason to serve. Patriotism is a strange feeling, rising up from nowhere, even under the weight of metric shitloads of disillusionment about our government. Thankfully, America is not it's government.
I can understand why a person wouldn't feel that way...but there's not much I can do about feeling that way. It's involuntary. I tear up a little when the anthem plays, lol.
I consider myself reasonably patriotic, but I have to say that all three national anthems that apply to me are utter crap. 'God Save The Queen' needs to add the line 'Because no one else will'. 'God Defend New Zealand' is just a prayer set to music. 'A Soldier's Song' has lyrics that sound like they were written by a 12 year old boy who just got his first set of tin soldiers.
Maybe countries should change their anthems every ten years or so, to keep them fresh. Either hold a song-writing contest for the general public or turn it over to professionals (I'll wager that Elton John could come up with a smashing anthem).
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
