Feeling Patriotic

This is my most patriotic pin cushion.

I am actually feeling very patriotic, for the first time in a long time. Perhaps it's my age. Aren't you supposed to feel anti-establishment from about 18 - 35 years old? Well, now I'm pushing 40. It could be my age. But I don't think so. After two months of kindergarten, I finally thought to ask my son about the pledge of allegiance - and was relieved down to my soul that they still ask public school students to learn it. I recited the pledge of allegiance myself for the first time in centuries. I even kept the "under God". How's that for liberal?