Proud to Be an American? - First Things

Proud to Be an American? - First Things

This July Fourth, you may have attended a local parade. If it was anything like mine, you probably saw classic cars, kids on bicycles, emergency vehicles, and the stars and stripes on clothing and flags of all shapes and sizes. Parades like this are a Norman Rockwell-type picture of what patriotism should inspire in all of us: gratitude to, and a willingness to serve, our nation “of the people, by the people, for the people”—a nation of all raci…