Invite me to share on the Book of Face patriotic graphics bearing the sentiment "I will never apologize for saying God Bless America." I'm thinking, isn't this like them saying "I will never apologize for saying grace at a dinner attended exclusively by our devoutly Catholic family?" I mean, who is it, exactly, that they think is going to demand this apology? Oh, wait: it's some senior citizens who've been saving their saliva for the forty or fifty years since they last apocryphally spit upon Our Brave Boys inbound from Vietnam. And I'm thinking also, the likelihood of my being called upon to apologize for uttering that patriotic bromide is approximately equal to the chances of someone calling me out for desecrating Mt. Everest of the occasion of my taking a whiz from its summit. I've never said "God bless America" in a conversational tone (left off singing it back in the day—see above), and don't imagine I ever will.

unpatriotically,