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So I've been trying to figure out, for the past few days, why wearing red, white and blue and having an American flag stuck in my ponytail doesn't make me feel any more patriotic than I've ever felt, and why the impact that Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle had on me hasn't ebbed, and why singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" with strangers, while moving and beautiful in the fact that we were all singing in one voice, hasn't made me feel any less that patriotism is all really granfalloonery, and then this wise woman explained it to me:

While I may have problems with "God Bless America," I do think "United We Stand" is a wonderful motto to which we should all be beholden; this is a time we should transcend arbitrary borders and nationalities and emerge as not citizens of a country or a group but as citizens of the world.

Thank you for having the words.

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