First I'd like to apologize for not having the decency to reply to any of your responses.

I'm bogged down in homework, my job, and plain old life, giving me only a little free time. That isn't the only reason though, I get distracted, and then lose interest in things, and is one of the reasons I've been away from Threshold for, sixteen days I believe.

Anyways, to say that I am not proud of America would be a false statement. Perhaps because humans seem to always remember the bad things more then the good things. My father was a Marine for thirteen years and I lived on a base for eight.

What makes me not so happy is things like tax cuts which eventually makes the military assume a few rookies can replace a highly trained aviation mechanic in the assumption that it is more "economical", namely my father. The military was my fathers life, it took him a long time to adjust to a civilian lifestyle.

Both my father and mother are immigrants to this country, from Germany and England respectively. I've been to these countries, lived in England for more then a year and others many times and seen differences, throughout my life.

One of the things that drives me irate is Americans who assume America is the only nation like it. England had given women rights twenty years before America did. Maybe because America is larger, had a whole lot of problems with getting people nationwide to agree on something in the past, but in many cases, it was America that was lagging behind in the simplest of things like rights.

Another thing that I think is crazy, is people who refer to the government or businesses, or any collection of individuals as a single body. Saudi Arabia, America, you can't simply give these names and say that everyone in that nation thinks the same and acts the same. Every country or collection of people under a name, has a large amount of individuals with different ideas and personalities. To assume that everyone in the middle east, or china, or cuba, is bad, is gathering everyone in those nations up and making a general assumption.

Anyways, I should stop ranting. I know no one has replied to this topic in eighteen or so days, but I felt the need to elaborate on my previous post. My apologies for once again being absent. Hopefully I can find more time for discussion.