Happy July 4th. This was given to me by Pete Seeger.
Here is true patriotism and something else to contemplate for the Fourth of July regarding patriotism.

""But this very triumph of scientific annihilation--this very success of invention--has destroyed the possibility of war being a medium of practical settlement of international differences. The enormous destruction to both sides of closely matched opponents makes it impossible for the winner to translate it into anything but his own disaster............. No longer does is possess the chance of the winner of a duel--it contains rather the germs of double suicide. Science has clearly outmoded it as a feasible arbiter. The great question is--does this mean that war can now be outlawed from the world? If so, it would mark the greatest advance in civilization since the Sermon on The Mount."
...........................for the speech "War is no longer a medium of practical settlement of international differences" given in 1955 at an address at a civic banquet sponsored by the Los Angeles County Council of the American Legion, January 26, 1955
........By General Douglas MacArthur.

Dutifully submitted by a patriot, Frank Hamilton