On the 23rd of December 1776, a young Tom Paine wrote, “These are the times that try men’s souls.” At the time, a young idealist nation was crawling forth from the first battles of revolution into a world being …
Patriotism in the USA
Like most American kids, I was raised to believe I was born in the best country in the whole world, the only truly free place on earth, and that the United States military were our heroes, because it …