Do you have the same passion & pride today, for the land in which your freedom was purchased by somebody else, as you did yesterday?
“It’s July 5th.
Do you have the same passion & pride for the land in which your freedom was purchased by somebody else?
Or are you complaining about having to go back to work?
It’s a land with endless potential.
But she requires you to love her every day like you did yesterday.”
-Ray Zingler on X
“This guy is crazy, what a corny post!”
That’s the exact problem.
We’ve gotten so far away from patriotism in this country that we consider taking real pride in our land, goofy.
Hell, there is a generation of kids growing up today who don’t take pride in America because they don’t know how.
Nobody is teaching them what it is or how/why they should.
Their understanding of freedom is a “Back-to-Back World War Champs” T-shirt that was made in China, being sold by their favorite Instagram account.
They aren’t contextualizing that teenagers, not but a few years older than themselves, got on airplanes or ships, traveled to foreign lands, to fight political wars for pennies on the dollar.
That is, if they made it home (only to be treated like further shit by our government).
And not only did they fight these wars for our freedom..
They suffered in miserable conditions, while being shot at.
While losing limbs and pulses with every passing crack of a high-powered rifle round and boom of an IED roadside bomb.
People just like themselves were prematurely taken away from their family’s fighting for the very freedoms you take for granted today.
And our kids get bent out of shape if they don’t make a fu*king travel ball team.
And it’s not their fault.
It’s their leaders’ faults.
We are teaching them to major in the minors without sharing the real-life stuff that matters far more than sports or music lessons.
America has so much potential.
More potential than any other place.
But we must treat her right.
We have to take pride in her.
We have to love her.
And turning a blind eye to patriotism and “remaining passive and silent as the future of our children is mortgaged overseas” (Boyd Bailey on the NDC) isn’t the way.
That pride yesterday, if you felt any at all, needs to compound.
It needs to be important to you, every day.
Not just the days you see the flags on Instagram.
If we start treating her the way she deserves to be treated, we can bring the “greatest nation in the world” claim back to reality.
But it starts with you.
It’s your moral obligation as an American.
