Posted on 03/07/2025 5:02:19 AM PST by Rev M. Bresciani
Many years ago, my then-teenage daughter was on a church choir tour in Philadelphia. My wife asked her by phone how it was going. Our daughter replied that everything had been going great, and they were hoping to visit the nation’s second largest shopping mall. But no. Instead, they had to go see “some stupid bell with a crack in it.” She told me later she just said this because she wanted to get a rise out of her dad—that would be me.
Feelings of patriotism ebb and flow. Is patriotism making a comeback?
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Most teenagers love to challenge and/or rebel against the authority figures in their lives. There are several ways to do it, some subtle and passive, other ways are designed to be as “in your face” as possible. If that teenager is lucky, the family relationship will survive that period without a great deal of hard feelings.
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