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Time in your life when you felt the most patriotic?
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:19 pm
I cannot remember how old I was but I was probably 9-10 and my dad and I were driving home from our annual 4th of July gathering with the window down listening to patriotic music and watching our town's fireworks out the window. First time I remember feeling a true sense of pride about my country and feeling appreciative that I lived in this country. There have been plenty other times of course but that one really sticks out to me. Give me your best! 
This post was edited on 7/2/26 at 3:53 pm
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Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:20 pm to GeauxTigahs92
After 9/11 when Lee Greenwood played the halftime show in Tiger Stadium was pretty awesome for college me.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:21 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Surviving every route clearance mission in Afghanistan, circa 2009.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:22 pm to CocomoLSU
First time I heard Toby Keith sing "Courtesy of the Red White and Blue"
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:23 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Last night was fun… I wore my LGB shirt to a USA watch party.. one of the guests was head to toe festooned in red white and blue.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:25 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Every damn day. America hating liberals can shove it!
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:28 pm to GeauxTigahs92
coming home from my first tour feeling like i did what i was supposed to
really wish i could get that back sometimes baw
really wish i could get that back sometimes baw
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:34 pm to GeauxTigahs92
The afternoon of 9-11. My grandfather was a resident of the Veterans' home in Monroe. I spent that afternoon with him and numerous other residents of the home simply watching the live news of the day's events. Seeing the passion of those great men knowing what they went through decades prior to this day in history still gives me chills.
The 4 to 6 months post 9-11 were incredibly patriotic for all Americans.
To ALL of our Veterans that have served our nation
The 4 to 6 months post 9-11 were incredibly patriotic for all Americans.
To ALL of our Veterans that have served our nation
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:41 pm to GeauxTigahs92
The tall ships parade in 1976 in NYC. Our squadron did a lot of dignitary fly overs in the harbor area and it was an awesome sight.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:42 pm to hillcountrytigah
Those days and weeks after 9/11 were some of my biggest.
19 years old
Pissed off
Churches overflowing that first Sunday afterwards. I remember ours having to set up closed circuit viewing rooms because the crowd was so large at our little church.
the George Bush bull horn ground zero moment
Mets playing the first game in NY after 9/11 on 9/21 and Piazza blasting a homer in the 8th and the stadium going crazy.
Jets vs Patriots on 9/23
The Yankee Stadium Memorial on 9/23
Bush walking outa t at Game 3 of the WS in Yankee Stadium and throwing the first pitch.
A lot of emotions over those first 2 months.
19 years old
Pissed off
Churches overflowing that first Sunday afterwards. I remember ours having to set up closed circuit viewing rooms because the crowd was so large at our little church.
the George Bush bull horn ground zero moment
Mets playing the first game in NY after 9/11 on 9/21 and Piazza blasting a homer in the 8th and the stadium going crazy.
Jets vs Patriots on 9/23
The Yankee Stadium Memorial on 9/23
Bush walking outa t at Game 3 of the WS in Yankee Stadium and throwing the first pitch.
A lot of emotions over those first 2 months.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:43 pm to GeauxTigahs92
People were all-in on patriotism during Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, and in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:45 pm to 4LSU2
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The 4 to 6 months post 9-11
Easily this
quote:
the George Bush bull horn ground zero moment
With this as the peak
This post was edited on 7/2/26 at 3:46 pm
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:46 pm to GeauxTigahs92
June 26, 1986 when I left for Parris Island.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:46 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:56 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Watching Rocky IV as a 10 year old doing push ups listening to Eye of the Tiger.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:56 pm to GeauxTigahs92
When I was 18 and in Basic Training in 1995 at Fort Benning in Georgia.
Night Infiltration Course (NIC): A mentally and physically demanding 100-meter low crawl where trainees navigate mud, sand, and barbed wire under live-fire tracer rounds and flares fired overhead by instructors.
My first time firing a BGM-71 TOW missile.
Night Infiltration Course (NIC): A mentally and physically demanding 100-meter low crawl where trainees navigate mud, sand, and barbed wire under live-fire tracer rounds and flares fired overhead by instructors.
My first time firing a BGM-71 TOW missile.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 3:59 pm to GeauxTigahs92
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felt the most patriotic
After my commissioning ceremony and my mother had pinned on my butter bars I moved outside and negotiated the crowd in a way to ensure SGM Rippey was the first NCO to salute me as an officer. Then "buying" that salute with a silver dollar. We had become very close over the previous 4 years so returning that salute was my apogee in patriotic pride.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 4:05 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Voting for Kamala. It was cathartic.
Posted on 7/2/26 at 4:21 pm to Obtuse1
That’s pretty cool that you got your first salute from a SGM. Sounds like you were a Mustang?
Posted on 7/2/26 at 4:25 pm to GeauxTigahs92
Maybe not the most, but it's hard to just not feel America frick yeah when you're on the beach and the blue angels fly over
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