PATRIOTISM

One other observation:

The communities are patriotic!! A troop was returning from a stint in Iraq, and THOUSANDS of people waited for hours just to greet them!! Not just friends and relative, but community!!
It was THEIR Soldiers who had been fighting. A local journalist waited ALL DAY at the facility (in a rural area) not just interviewing and adding the personal side of the return, but updated every hours or so by contacting the buses hauling them home!!

Everyone was bedecked in red, white and blue and waving flags.

And, they did it with pride or our Free nation and offered prayers of thankfulness for their safety and return!!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!!