"I'm proud of Texas just like you're proud of Japan. "
Don't get me wrong...
I am MUCH more proud being a Texan (and knowing how to survive on my own for months at a time in any wilderness) than being here in Japan...
BTW... I WAS involved with the 1st Gulf war in Iraq during 1991.... I was USAF, 31TFW309... not that ir makes much difference to civies... ;)