Yesterday's post...might make the case for some national remembering — what do we know about what got us here (good and bad), what are we thankful for, what do we believe in?
We should dedicate a day sometime for some collective-reflection (wait...we have one, so I guess the question is more like, do we use it for such?):
[Serving aboard the U.S.S. Essex] was a teamwork operation, certainly. We had very few occasions when we would do anything on a solo basis. Almost everything we did as teams, and in our case we usually liked flights of four at least, to help each other out.
-- Neil Armstrong
It didn’t have to be the military, but I just thought service of some kind is important … for citizenship. I just think it’s important to give back, whether it’s locally in your own community or statewide or national.
-- Rob Riggle
True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
-- James Baldwin
One man's reflection of his time of military service and the impacts it had on his life...here.