Folks, I can tell you from this side of the Atlantic that the MAJORITY of Americans are not the ‘America, love it or leave it, we do what we want and the hell with the rest of the world!’ variety…most of us are quiet, respectable, baseball game attending, go out and get drunk on a Friday night because the work week is over, work on the car on the weekend while taking our kids to the amusement park folks who just do their part in the world and try to get on with their lives while facing mountains of bills that need to be paid with paychecks that are USUALLY too small to do the job. Most of us have, I believe, a favorable impression of Britain and the folks over there, some of us DO know what you lot did against Hitler and his thugs and respect and admire the tenacity you showed in standing up to a dictator and staring him down….and it’s to that point that I address this group-Americans are not morons (though some of you might differ in that opinion), we know who won the Battle of Britain (certainly not us, although a ‘Few’ helped) and most of us know who the ‘Allies’ were in WWII, and that the whole conflict could not have been won without everyone helping out everyone else. Please, do not take the more ludicrously vocal members of us as a measure of the whole, the loudmouths who DO shout ‘America’s NUMBER ONE!!’ from the highest perches…they do not speak for the rest of us, who are more modest about the achievements of our country….but nonetheless proud of them, just as the British are of theirs, the Welsh, the Scots, etc….
A Modest Yank in Colorado
Mark
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