I'm an American, though I can trace much of my family back to UK from the 19th Century onward, to also includes Scandinavian lineage.
On a personal level, I enjoy my Brit roots, my cousins came over from Bath, England for a first in the 1980's and it was very enjoyable, particularly coming ftf with family who were immediate cousins whom I'd no idea of
Perhaps a bit unlike yourself, I do wave my nation's flag. Not so much externally, as I have run up our nation's flag on a tall flag pole at my home....yet I make no secret of the fact that, despite the failing of my nation throughout it's history, and those events are many fold, I still believe that America is THE last bulwark, with the assistance from it's NATO partners throughout the world, in acting as a deterrent to both communist, and despot aggression.
To be clear, I've spent a host of my time in my nation's armed forces, and I lost a grandfather, I was never priviliged to meet, killed by a Nazi U-boat during WWII, and if I were to be allowed to speak his voice from his grave from the bottom of the sea.....just outside your country, I suspect he would state that, not unlike England and the rest of UK, they have been our greatest partners in the struggle to maintain our personal freedoms.
And yest, there are those who come in to power whom, I question their loyalty and sense of history of my country, but I rest in finality in the fact that, unlike an unfortunate country as Russia, Iran or other corrupt country, the people DO have a say. But it IS up to the working, blue collar individual in any or our countries.....freedom loving people....from the tip of northern Europe, throughout America and other parts of the world to do THEIR part, to ensure that in the end....that sense of democracy reigns supreme. We, the PEOPLE need to continue to exert our will over the politicol's...to keep them honest and let them know that we as a collective are watching.
I've either said too much, or not enough "J".....I could prattle on, but what would that accomplish right? Just my two cents, it doesn't make me right.
