Heh.
When I first saw your post I thought there was something wrong with my (work) email sig. Took me several clicks to figure out I wasn't using that as my sig here - I thought initially you were pointing out that I had misquoted Franklin.
bcnu,
Mikem
The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice and always has been...We have thrown away the most valuable asset we had-- the individual's right to oppose both flag and country when he (just he, by himself) believed them to be in the wrong. We have thrown it away; and with it all that was really respectable about that grotesque and laughable word, Patriotism.
- Mark Twain, "Monarchical and Republican Patriotism"