[truthpls]

I just wonder if anyone in the last 50 years has read "A Man Without A Country" as required reading in a Jr. High School class. It's been a long time ago, but I remember reading of a man who declared he "hated his country", in a court of law. He was then sentenced to life on a ship, never landing on land, and never having a country to claim as his own. It was an enlightening experience, and the man suffered unbelievably as a result.
I'm sure there can be a lot of flaws found in this story, but it does makes one think a little bit more about what their country means to them and what are true criticisms, and what are selfish whinings.

[river rat]

Read a book? In Government Schools?
Surely you jest...

There's not time for that, with all the political indoctrination they must pump into the sheeple's heads..

Semper Fi

[CDB]

I just wonder if anyone in the last 50 years has read "A Man Without A Country" as required reading in a Jr. High School class. It's been a long time ago, but I remember reading of a man who declared he "hated his country", in a court of law. He was then sentenced to life on a ship, never landing on land, and never having a country to claim as his own. It was an enlightening experience, and the man suffered unbelievably as a result. I'm sure there can be a lot of flaws found in this story, but it does makes one think a little bit more about what their country means to them and what are true criticisms, and what are selfish whinings.

We read that same story in school many years ago. I can still recite the first few lines from memory (and they apply perfectly to "Congressman" Murtha): Breathes there a man with soul so dead. Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land..."