x_sf, you've identified almost every person I know from where I live and work. Very well said. --Aric
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Originally Posted by x_sf_med
Americans are instant pudding people, everything has to be immediate; modern Americans are sterile people, everything has to be clean; modern Americans are liberal, everything has to be fair; modern Americans have never seen a war waged in their own country, they cannot understand what their soldiers have seen and experienced. although their hearts yearn to give the freedoms we enjoy to the rest of the world, the bounties of their own culture will not let them see that it has taken 230 years for a bunch of colonies to become the great nation that protects them from the horrors of what others in this world endure. We understand, we have seen both sides, we have had to be patient, in our training and in our duty; and yet we are still modern Americans, products of our culture.
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