[fr_freak]

IIRC, there was a story about an American who renounced his country and was perpetually remanded to different warships off-shore as a punishment - never to see his homeland again....

"The Man Without a Country"

by Edward Everett Hale

http://www.bartleby.com/310/6/1.html

[MS.BEHAVIN]

A great read!
Thank you!

[Patriotic1]

I read that as an impressionable youth in an old book at my grandmother’s house in the 70s. I had to be under 10 at the time.

It stuck with my ever since, and I think it gave me a base for my patriotism.