Independence Day (A Little Late)

Published: July 11, 2007, 12:58 pm

Tags: austin wise, kim pleticha, nationalism, parenting, patriotism, true patriotism

Kim Pleticha is the editor of a small parents' publication in Austin called Parent:Wise, and I recently picked up a copy while waiting for an appointment. (Unfortunately, the current issue has not been posted online as of today.) I was surprised and delighted to find an editorial on True Patriotism that summed up and amplified many of my own vague feelings that somehow get stirred up on the Fourth of July. I do love this country, and I love it because of my reverence for the courage, wisdom, and supreme humanity of the men who risked their lives to create it. That those same men would be appalled by the pseudo-democracy emerging in the last couple of decades (and the last six years in particular) brings me little joy. However, Kim Pleticha has some wonderful musings on what it means to be patriotic today. She began the piece by taking on the common lament that our media is responsible for our sorry state of cultural and historical awareness: But in blaming the media, we may as well

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