What is patriotism to you...?

Question

Well to me it is supporting my country and all of the men and women who serve or have served to protect our freedoms. Y!A doesn't support this. My question and comments stating how much I appreciated you all are being deleted and sent as violations. Jump on board with the many who are not continuing to frequent Y!A because of this. Please support our freedoms.

Answer 1

when you love your country and you will support it no matter what thats patriotism or nationalism weir studying it in school

Answer 2

Ok first to answer the question:
I consider patriotism as supporting the Constitution.. completely with no fussing about pieces I don't agree with (like when pro-life ppl fuss about a woman's constitutional 1st Amd right to privacy over what happens to her body.)

Now with that said, I do NOT support the troops. I am a veteran of Desert Storm. I came out of inactive status in 1989 voluntarily to attend that war. If I had been ask or called up to participate in this morally bankrupt war, I would have refused and taken a court martial. I will NOT murder innocent ppl for a man to get more oil.

My fellow soldiers in Iraq today are traitors to the U.S. Constititution. They sold their souls for a paycheck. Once again, I earned the right to say this having served in a war.

Answer 3

It means to love your country, but it doesn't mean blind support. We live in a country that gives us the freedom to disagree with our government when we feel that there are injustices going on within our country or around the world. That's how this great country began, after all.

Answer 4

Patriotism to me is supporting our forces in the war on terror. It means making our leaders accountable, but giving them moral and prayer support. It is believing in what makes America the best place on earth to raise our children, and what makes us committed to each other and the rest of the world. It is not following blindly, but it is being truly informed, not just swallowing the story of the night on the news. I love America, I love its history and its people.

Answer 5

There are so many strident and malcontent people who perpetually stress their right to protest our government without ever even considering the crucial importance of supporting our government.

If everything is allowed to be a matter of controversy, all you have is chaos, and nothing gets accomplished.

If you want to know what patiotism really is, read this account about what happened to the signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and
burned.

Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two
sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and
died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists. Eleven were merchants. Nine were farmers and large plantation owners; men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of
Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were
captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts, and died in rags.

Thomas McKeam was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers looted the properties of Dillery, Hall, Clymer, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr, noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. He quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid
to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later he died from exhaustion and a broken heart.

Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution.

These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.

Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: “For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.”

They gave you and me a free and independent America.

Answer 6

Believing in and honoring the founding fathers for what they did to give us the freedoms we enjoy today.

Be willing to fight for the freedoms that we enjoy. (although a personal choice, all should be willing)

Also willing to some part in improving our country and making it better and safe for all.

Loving our flag and be willing to say the Pledge of Allegiance.

Answer 7

By patriotism I am assuming you mean patriotism as it applies to the US of A. If that is the case it means supporting democracy and democratic values, not BTW so called "family values. It means acting to protect the weak and underprivileged and supporting freedom of speech and belief. It does not mean singling out any one faith or anyone people for attack regardless of their beliefs or sexual orientation. It means removing leaders who do not follow these values and prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law.

Answer 8

Patriotism is an idiotic and outdated concept, it should be banned.

Because of it people will kill each other, because of it people are not like brothers rather more like enemies. Because of it humanity's progress has been slowed to a crawl.

Patriots need to get a brain and learn how to use it. What makes a country? were does a country end? where a line on some map says? what happens if we move that line? lol

Answer 9

Well you are correct about patriotism and I salute you, but however, you should check the guidelines for Yahoo! Q&A. Or, Yahoo! is just being politically correct, then you have a reason to be pissed. AMEN SISTA!

Answer 10

challenging authority as it is abused by the upper echelon. keep those in power in check!
if you dont then they will send all of OUR kids to war instead of their own and fight for things we dont even believe in. that is true patriotism. read thomas jeffersons comments and writings. he tells us to do that.