Proud to be American in Illinois
May 4, 2005 ~ 6:34 p.m.
CHICAGO, Illinois, USA - I must say, I'm mightily impressed by the attitude here. It's very patriotic.
Aside from one twit on the L who had a button on his man-bag that read, "When Clinton Lied, No-one Died," there are American flag stickers and "Support Our Troops" labels on almost every car. That surprised me, being that Chicago is largely Democrat territory.
The sentiment is even stronger in Southern Illinois. You wouldn't want to be an anti-war activist in that part of the country, I assure you. You'd get the thorough butt-kicking you'd deserve. Those people live in the greatest country on earth and they know it. On the side of one farmhouse we passed - and it's all farming land past the small city of Kankakee - somebody had painted an American flag and wrote in large letters "PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN."
I feel so at home here. Chicago is a great city, and Illinois a great state.
� M.E.M.
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