I am proud to be an American, are you?

Question

It seems like this country is divided and half of them want to live
elsewhere.

Answer 1

Yes I'm proud. There is nowhere in the world better to be. We do need to get back on the right track i.e. punishing our children when needed, teaching right from wrong etc. All those people that want to be somewhere else... TYA.

Answer 2

Proud To Be An American, Ashamed Of My Government!

Answer 3

I believe in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States and its Bill of Rights, the American flag. I get teary eyed at patriotic songs, and I think back on all the people that won something towards our freedom in difficult times. From Boston Harbor, to the struggles with the elements (I will not say the land - we still need to respect it), the Civil War and the fight to first save the Union, with the underlying reason of freeing the slaves being announced as more people became involved and aware.... from suffrage movements, and defending our shores against the first foreign attack that struck on December 7, 1941 - to the Civil Rights movement, and Vietnam and the nameless that were dishonored who fought fruitlessly much like the fruitlessness we seem to see today.... from all these things till now - facing the challenges to reach a better future is part of being American. Grabbing our bootlaces is part of being American.

There has always been something to be UNPROUD of as well, whether it be the fact that we held humans as chattel, tested nuclear bombs near schools so that children could be tested for what diseases might form from radiation, holding Japanese-Americans in concentration camps during World War II, "granting" third world nations within our borders on reservation for native people, or human experimentation programs like MKUltra without a persons will.... but, the thing is - that through time, we improve who we are as a nation.

President Jefferson set all his slaves free long before slavery was recognized as a moral wrong. No one would dream of holding a concentration camp in the United States, it would be broadcast like a branch Davidian....

Difficult times require strong people, and not an attitude of cessation.

America, the United States of America - even in faulty hands, with wavering citizens wringing their own hands nearby - is still a proud place to live.

BEING American requires more than living on American soil. It means rejoicing in what American is, and being willing to get your hands dirty to rebuild it. Changing times means restructuring. And, another time of that is coming - anyone can see that.

I'm proud to be American - but, the question is that we should really ask, is who is it that American is proud to call hers?

Answer 4

I love America too, but have to say I am ashamed to be an american. I'm not proud to be part of a country whose president, with his tiny brain amd enormous ego thinks it's just fine to murder hundreds of thousands of immocent civilians by starting a war in their country based on what have been proved to be flat out lies; a president who thinks it's just fine to sign a bill confirmiong the Geneva Convention against torture and then turn around and sign a secret statement saying he won't follow what he just siged unless he just jhappens to feel like it, and doesn't stop torturing. Unfortunately I could go on and on; his giving huge tax cuts to the richest and making low income people pay the cost Zero on health care- just make it so complicated that no one can even figure it out; let the old people die too- no problem for him or his pals; a president that was NOT elected by a majority of the voters, either time, and promotes the continued use of voting machines that can easily be hacked so him and his kind can cheat themselves into permanent power.
And No, I don't want to live in another country. I want to live in the country I was born in; a country that was looked up to by the rest of the world, not one that only brings shame on me as one of its citizens.

Answer 5

How correct is what "davidi" just said : A country that was looked up to by the rest of the world, not one that only brings shame on !
If there is a dispute amongst same nation there is something wrong, the larger is the scale makes it uglier and need a change. Being born in America doesnt bring any privilege up on rest of world. In fact it was non of our CHOICE where to be born, Our newly born children could have been born anywhere in the world, therefore lets listen to our conscience and have a good look out there and say me or my new born baby could have been amongst those innocent victims...
We are mortals; Lets BE THE PATRIOTS of HUMANITY and as coexistents lets cherish the limited time we are given on this Mother Earth....

I deeply thank you for your concern on following links:

http://www.hrw.org/

http://www.civicworldwide.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=54

Answer 6

Yes, I'm proud to be an American. For those who want to live elsewhere "Don't let the door hit you in the butt" - And you know what? Our military will still be there to rescue you when it gets too bad for you.

Answer 7

Sometimes I am ashamed and sometimes proud to be an American. I don't want to live elsewhere either. What I am not proud of is G.W. and where our country is headed.

Answer 8

I can't think of the words to explain why, but I too am definitely proud of being an American!

Answer 9

Yes, I am proud to be an American!

Answer 10

Yes, even if our leader mess up a lot of the time and we attack other nations on a false premise, the American People are, for the most part, fairly good natured and careing.