Proud to live in the States...

Well, My friend, I can't fault you for being proud of Canada..
I have had the pleasure to see Canada several times in the past..
And have spent many days and nights wandering the beautiful places there..

If I wasn't an American, I too would be Most pleased to be a Canadian..
Our shared experience I do believe makes our relationship special..

BRAVO To Our Brothers and Sisters up North..
:salute: :salute: :salute:
 
C9G

Thanks for sharing that link. That was a thought provoking, patriotism stirring and touching tribute to a great country and its people.

OBIO
 
Gig is another proud Canuck, and no offence to my good friends in the US of A, but I think Canadian women are the prettiest females on the planet, but I am a little biased in that department - oh and the starter of this thread is on the top of that list :kilroy:
 
HouseHobbit, Obio and Gig~

You guys are so sweet! Thank you for putting a smile on my face tonight. I'm glad you enjoyed the video!

 
I work for the US Navy. The base I work at was host to a Canadian submarine last week. There is a protocol which dictates that at Morning Colors after the National Anthem is played the National Anthem of any visiting ship's country is played.

I had the fortune of hearing "Oh Canada" every morning last week. It's a very well done piece of music. :canada: :salute:
 
Not all Native Americans...or as I call us, Injuns, are descendents of Canada's First Nations. Studies using Mitocondrial material...which is passed from mother's to their children and changes very slowly over time...now show that there were 3 routes of imigration into the American Continent. One wave, made up of folks of Northern Asia/Siberian blood came across the Bering Straight into Alaska and Canada and spread Eastward and Southward. A second immigration, made up of folks of Southern Asian blood, somehow managed to arrive in South American and spread Northward. There was also some Mitocondrial DNA/RNA (can't remember which it is) found within the genetic make up of us Injuns that the researchers could not isolate at first. It was not of Northern Asian/Siberian origin, nor was it of Southern Asian origin. The source of this Mitocondrial material was eventually found to have originated from.....drum roll.....Europe....namely eastern Spain...a small area there was found to have mitocondrial material found in some Injuns in US of A. And this Spanish mitocondrial stuff was not newly introduced to the Injun gene pool....it was THOUSANDS of years removed from Spain.

Ok, sorry to have gone OT......but I take my Injun heritage slightly seriously....about as seriously as I take my European heritage..which is English and either French or German (the debate is still going on if our family name is a variation of an Old French name or of an OLD German name).

OBIO
 
Far be it from me to interrupt this bladder-rending wee love-in you guys are having, but I have to point out that, whilst our Canadian friends have undoubtedly gained a stranglehold in the world of curling, it was first invented a long, long, time ago, OVER HERE !!!!
 
OBIO said:
...the debate is still going on if our family name is a variation of an Old French name or of an OLD German name.
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I'd suggest you to choose the french version!
You're aware of the german meaning of your last name...?

Cheers,
Markus.
 
"Proud" ? Well, not exactly. . . I can see being happy, content, even excited and pleased to be Canadian (or American or French or, etc., ect. ) but "proud" is not quite the right term.

One may be proud of an accomplishment or a creation but the accident of your birthplace and resulting nationality is nothing you had anything to do with, other than surviving childbirth. It's like saying that you're "proud" to be a human being. . . as if you had some choice - and made the right one.

I don't mean to irritate or minimize the great things about being Canadian (or anything else) and I realize this is a bit pedantic - but it's accurate.


Ok. . . I'll get me hat - :running:
 
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