Uncle Bubba looks out of driver's side window of his pickup truck at the enormous American flag waving over a car dealership. Its shear size gives the illusion that it's moving in slow motion outside of present time. He reminisces on the noble legacy and heritage that the grand flag represents, beyond the current spectacle of an attention grabbing, flapping billboard.
Can any of us, who have lived through the past 30 or 40 years, through assassinations, Watergate, impeachments, Iran-Contra, Whitewater, Viet Nam, inflation, the oil embargo, the Middle East crises, the 2000 election, 9/11, the war in Iraq, the hunt for Osama...(what's his name again?) not understand that many Americans feel a sense of patriotic devolution? I love my country and support my government, but I will not blindly follow any leader” without a big fat, healthy dose of cautious cynicism. Trust is earned.
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