 Marty writes, my patriotic streak began when a group of college kids defeated the greatest hockey team ever assembled in 1980. They had no choice but to win. Just a ragtag army was given no chance to defeat the world's greatest military, and now we are 248 years young. Never has a nation resolved so many of its wrongs in such a short period of time. Hear, hear. And, you know, we have had on. It popped up in my Facebook memories.