 older brother and her father did in world war ii like it's just i hate it that people assume that patriotism is skin deep right it's not just pick up drugs it's not just fourth of july parades right it's like knowing that you came from a group of people who did something powerful and morally upstanding that's a i mean that's the basic that is the fuel on which a society functions right you want people to love their country you want them to feel some connectedness to the past