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what has your country done for you?

jastrjastr Member Posts: 463 ✭✭✭
edited May 2002 in General Discussion
If you could tell the world The one thing you like best about living in the U>S>A. What would it be? Mine would be the Right too bear arms. Im not sure freedom of speech really exists anymore with all that biased news and sensorship around today! Would you still fight too defend these rights?

lets all be responsible! shoot a criminal! Remember 0% of firearms pull there own trigger!
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    That we have a constitution and bill of rights.
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  • Jody CommanderJody Commander Member Posts: 855 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    The country itself has done little other than supply raw materials and nourishing soil for crops. The PEOPLE that came before us gave all the freedoms and benefits that exist in this country and in most other places in the world where free Men live. These freedoms and benefits did not come without a price, and the bill was usually paid in some U.S. soldiers blood. I love my country, but I REVERE the Men that built it, using their faith in a God and the undaunted will to live free. The people that formed the United States from ideals could have built it anywhere, but perhaps the same God that inspired and guided the founding of this country also provided the best place to build it.
    The United States of America
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  • beachmaster73beachmaster73 Member Posts: 3,011 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Nice post Jody! Solid X-Ring!! Beach
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  • JBBooksJBBooks Member Posts: 103 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I am glad I get my star by saying
    thank you to Jody Commander.
    Excellent statement of fact, sir.

    JJB

    I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people and I require the same from them.
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  • robsgunsrobsguns Member Posts: 4,581 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The country defined as??? I'm not sure I'm thinking the same as you are. I can say this though. This country is the most beautiful place on earth overall. I've seen a lot of the world from my T.V., since I cant afford to go in person, and I know there are many other beautiful places, but..... When I left for Okinawa the first time I had no idea I would miss the beauty so much. It wasnt any easier the 2nd time. The best thing the Corps ever did for me was to send me to Okinawa. It gave me an appreciation for the beauty of America like I had never known before. That said, I guess this country has given me the most beautiful place in the world to live, and I wouldnt trade it for anything. I still like to see other places here, and until I've seen them all, I dont see any reason to visit outside the U.S.

    SSgt Ryan E. Roberts, USMC
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  • offerorofferor Member Posts: 8,625 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    If I had to tell someone what I love most about America I wouldn't know where to begin, and the job would be made bigger by the very things you have mentioned, the government and the media. Not only our government, by the way, but the impressions given about America by every other government to its people as well.

    I am reminded (thinking out loud here) of the "space bridge" TV broadcasts that Phil Donahue (forget his politics for a minute) and Vladimir Posner orchestrated years ago between the people of the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It wasn't until people talked to people that we all began to get past the mental barriers created by the countless false impressions and preconceived notions. A most powerful tool for making friends out of enemies. Obviously, if you want to keep your enemies as enemies, you don't want your people talking to their people directly too often. But if you want to befriend a nation who has the wrong idea about your people, I think some kind of sustained person-to-person bridge may be one of the most truly effective methods, outside of Reagan's direct approach: "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

    - Life NRA Member
    If dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
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  • agloreaglore Member Posts: 6,012
    edited November -1
    Well my country doesn't owe me anything. What do I like best about living in America, the right to make choices.

    AlleninAlaska aglore@gci.net
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  • salzosalzo Member Posts: 6,396 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    I would say that the thing I love about this country is its history.
    We once had a republic that actually adhered to a set of principles that is outlined in the constitution.

    Happiness is a warm gun
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  • joeaf1911a1joeaf1911a1 Member Posts: 2,962 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Let's also ask "what have you done for this country". Seems like
    last time I saw people standing in line to enlist was way back in
    "the last war we won" in the 40's. Even voting lines are a thing of the past. If 30 percent of the eligible voters turn out is is a
    high turnout. If one does not vote, one should not gripe.
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  • daddodaddo Member Posts: 3,408
    edited November -1
    I'm begining to think the "people" love this country more than some of the politicians. (I'm not mentioning names like McCain/Feingold, Hillary ect....)
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  • idsman75idsman75 Member Posts: 13,398 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hmm...what has my country done for me. Well, I am still a year shy of a degree and have more NET income than most people in the area where I live who do have a Bachelor's degree doing something that I would rather not do but am happy doing because there are greater rewards at the end of the trail. Thanks for letting me be part of the team.

    SSG idsman75, U.S. ARMY
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