Right-minded Americans everywhere will probably be finding it difficult to celebrate the Fourth of July …Guess I'm not a right-minded American, because I had no difficulty celebrating yesterday. Debbie and I went out to dinner, and came home and watched Yankee Doodle Dandy, as proudly patriotic a movie as you're likely ever to see.. Of course, I remember watching the troop trains rolling by across from where we lived when I was very small. And I remember the men who came home from the war. I turned 4 the year WWII ended, but my fourth birthday was when I was taught how to tell time. Amazing how vivid that memory is. And that is the sensibility I bring to the Fourth of July.
I suppose Tyler's novel is quite good, but it's hard to tell from this review, which really doesn't tell us all that much about it.
I'm not even sure what it means to be right-minded, and I'm much more likely to be wrong-minded, but I don't care to celebrate bullying, lying, greed, or sheer offensiveness (for example, mocking others), but I still hope that this Ugly American is not the only sort of American we have left.
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