"I think you need to support our troops. What could be more patriotic and American than that?
We asked 8 San Diegans OCEANSIDE, July 1, 2017 | People wave America flags during the annual Oceanside Independence Day Parade in downtown Oceanside.
What’s it like for you? San Diegans deserve a more robust, transparent and trustworthy police oversight process. Take one guess why. Yet I’ve had my patriotism questioned on occasion, like for chanting “no more war!” or “power to the people!” and once for telling a man that I didn’t get goosebumps when the national anthem is played. “Seeking donors of all blood types,” a soldier announced over the base intercom. Maybe I do, and I just can’t see it, but it’s worth thinking about. Gessen, whose parents emigrated from the Soviet Union, writes about Andrei, an adult child of emigres returning to live in Russia. "You can disagree but you need to do so in the right way," was another opinion. And the reaction is hostile.". As veterans, we know division doesn’t exist on the battlefield. From normalizing white supremacy, incarcerating millions, accepting officer-involved and mass shootings to separating families, there is much not to like. Why? I want to criticize constructively, from a place of love, but in truth, I don’t know that I do that.
At the very least, having a modicum of real patriotism would mean acknowledging just how un-American it is to try to make our nation a terrible place for most people and a great place for fascists. Even though I’ve traveled abroad a lot, I don’t really “know” any other way of life. At the Union-Tribune, we feel the weight of the painful chapters in our company’s story. Just two days to go to Election Day ... a day for doing our patriotic duty by exercising our franchise, by voting for the candidates of our choice. They need help.” Andrei senses he is quoting somebody, but he can’t recall whom. refers to is a Russian veteran of World War II that he’d met on one of the stops, and with whom he had shared vodka toasts to the US-Russian anti-Hitler alliance. Chris Cate: Measure D would hold San Diego school trustees to same standards as other elected city officials. Hayne Palmour IV / San Diego Union-Tribune. On the other hand, in what sense do I love America? I think about our flag as she was raised on Iwo Jima and planted on the moon. "It was President Truman, after all, who revived the idea of loyalty oaths and the legitimacy of imposing them" … a Democratic president. Patriotism has to be more than obsequious adherence to a tortured myth; it cannot just be loving a country that doesn’t love you (or anyone else) back. Cabrera is a San Diego attorney and chair of the San Diego Convention Center Board of Directors. That’s about it, for me. I am extremely allergic to the forced cheerfulness of canned patriotism, which is political kitsch. Gaspar represents District 3 on the San Diego County Board of Supervisors. But then, stolen lands worked by stolen people are not conducive to the myth of the United States that we like to tell ourselves, even if they are the perfect places to highlight the lies that a country rooted in oppression can tell itself with a straight face. Like us on Facebook to see similar stories, Thousands flee new wildfires in Calif. wine country, Next Time You Order a Starbucks Salted Caramel Mocha, Use These Tips to Make It Healthier. Our Cover Story is reported by Martha Teichner: "Patriotism: Believing in God first and country second," said one person. Sorry, but copying text is forbidden on this website. I think about Abraham Lincoln dedicating the cemetery at Gettysburg and reuniting a nation. (AP/Tony Gutierrez, Pablo Martinez Monsivais). In this passage, P.J. Patriotism is exercising First Amendment rights in speaking the truth out of love and assembling in praise of, or in protest to the violation of, liberty and justice for all. If that’s what patriotism is all about, then Americans have precious little for which we can claim any special or unique love. I apply this wisdom to my view of being a patriot and patriotism. We aren’t asking those people to risk death to fight an enemy abroad, let alone a foreign invader. No matter how divided we may feel, I know there is far more that unites us. Here’s why. It’s a question we should all ask ourselves. "You have never been not proud to be an American," said Gov. Witness the willingness of many to sacrifice their fellow Americans’ health to avoid having to give up even one iota of personal comfort, demanding that workers put themselves and their families at risk to give haircuts or wait tables or clean homes, often to people who refuse to wear masks as a gesture of basic courtesy. Matthew Hutson and Lloyd Crawford show their support in Crawford, Texas, March 20, 2004; a member of Iraq Veterans Against the War leads an anti-war demonstration down Pennsylvania Ave. Sept. 15, 2007. Every one of us had plenty to complain about concerning our homeland, and boy, did we complain. I was ashamed of the man. American Patriotism is a loyalty not to a party or president, but to the American Constitution and founding values. This is, I think, a good description of how a certain kind of cosmopolitan liberal thinks about America. "It is worth considering the meaning of patriotism because the question of who is or is not a patriot all too often poisons our political debates in ways that divide us rather than bring us together," said Sen. Barack Obama. Because my country is all I know