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by Jens Bottiger
Germans ARE patriotic.
In America you show your patriotism by attaching a full sized American flag to your pickup truck (or Confederate flag to show alternative patriotism), singing the anthem before every baseball game, and sending 18 year-olds to Iraq so you can later thank them for their service when they roll by you in their wheelchair at Walmart.
In Germany we show patriotism by voting for higher taxes on ourselves to make healthcare and college tuition universally accessible to our less fortunate fellow citizens and by picking up after one another to keep public spaces clean and nice for everyone.
I guess it gets lost in translation.
Happy Memorial Day, folks. Remember, patriotism doesn't mean loving a piece of cloth.
Germans ARE patriotic.
In America you show your patriotism by attaching a full sized American flag to your pickup truck (or Confederate flag to show alternative patriotism), singing the anthem before every baseball game, and sending 18 year-olds to Iraq so you can later thank them for their service when they roll by you in their wheelchair at Walmart.
In Germany we show patriotism by voting for higher taxes on ourselves to make healthcare and college tuition universally accessible to our less fortunate fellow citizens and by picking up after one another to keep public spaces clean and nice for everyone.
I guess it gets lost in translation.
Happy Memorial Day, folks. Remember, patriotism doesn't mean loving a piece of cloth.