The Famished Patriot

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Ahhh … the power of the patriarchs! A little while back I had a jaw-dropping revelation. It might not seem like anything of importance to you, but for me, it opened up a world of thought and meaning. “What was the revelation?” you ask. I realized that the words patriot and patriarch find their origins […]

To keep patriotism alive, we must continue to tell the kinds of stories that speak of vision and self-sacrifice. My generation, and the generations before me, were weaned on patriotic stories. Though not always completely 100% factual, the stories we heard as kids inspired patriotism and fed our love of country. They told of larger […]

We are beginning the END of this series, The Patriot, with a look at some ways we can be working to restore authentic American patriotism. I concluded my last blog post with a thought about intentionality. I wrote that America hating is learned. So is patriotism. In the years since my youth—the ’50’s and ’60’s—the […]

They are out there. You know it and I know it. I am talking about those people—those Americans—who hate America. And it troubles me … it troubles me greatly. The worldview that I have enjoyed all of my life cannot make room for hating America. The sentiment does not fit into my personal perspective on […]

It happened nearly nine years ago and involved but a few words. But those few words, spoken from a stage in London to a crowd of country music fans, shocked millions of Americans and altered the course of perhaps the hottest music group of that day―The Dixie Chicks. Just ten days before the U.S. Military […]

Across the board, in the overall scheme of things here in the early years of this new millennium, questions about American patriotism must be raised. ● How deep does patriotism really run in our land? ● How fertile, how rich, is the soil into which the seeds of patriotism fall? I do not pretend to […]

Do you recall the surge of national pride immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks? Patriotism ran high, and everywhere we looked, flags unfurled. Dotting our yards, flying above our car windows, and draping down from our highway bridges, Old Glory’s image painted a colorful reminder that we Americans stood as one, united against terrorism. Decorating […]

Authentic. Genuine. Real. I like these words. My inspiration for this new series titled The Patriot came almost immediately after I began writing The Famished Patriot blog. That was nearly eight months ago. The word “patriot” has intrigued me for a while now, and I wanted to explore it more fully. As I began to […]

The year I came into the world (1951), America was awash in patriotism. Our soldiers and sailors, marines and airmen had, just a few years earlier, returned home from delivering decisive victories in the Pacific and Atlantic theaters of WWII. We had not only trampled our enemies under our feet, we had extended the hand […]