re: Time in your life when you felt the most patriotic?

Whenever a jet does a flyover before a game Im attending. For some reason it makes want to tear up. Most recently before Game 1 of the CWS finals.

9/11 for sure. And everytime I see the Blue Angels.

Movie wise Saving Private Ryan and
U-571 ( for some reason) make me proud.

Also Letters from home is a great song that helps you appreciate our service members past and present.

I’m proud to be an American no matter what.

The night Bin Laden was killed. I remember the breaking news report coming on TV.

After spending 6 weeks in Vietnam and when going thru customs the Customs officer said “welcome to the USA”. I wanted to kneel and kiss the ground, so thankful to be back home!

When we beat the Russians in hockey
In 1980. I was only 7 years old and can remember the chants of usa usa on TV.

When Hulk Hogan defeated the Iron Sheikh.

I grew up in a town surveyed by a very young George Washington and with lots of Civil War battlefields nearby. Visits to the homes of the early Presidents happened, and to Jamestown and Williamsburg.
As I aged, the import of all those meant more.

One of many visits to Montpelier this one on a cold winter's day gave more of a feeling of how brilliant Jefferson was, and then to read his garden journal (which now belongs to the Massachusetts Garden Society and is on line) gave a feeling of history.
Then an off season visit to the Smithsonian to the portrait gallery and the room that houses the portraits from life of the first five presidents. That painter painted all five of them and they were the reason we are.

Visits mid weed in low tourist season are recommended because tourists aren't a positive addition to experiences.

I was so disturbed after 9/11, I ran a 5K with a flag race in 2001. And I didn't run. Everyone had flags, some were crying, but everyone was one that day. All races, ages, etc. It was a beautiful race.

In 1970, 17 yrs. old while still in my senior year of high school. I had one cousin in the Navy, one in the Air Force and one flying choppers for the Army in Nam.

I signed up early enlistment while still in school to head to Orlando for Navy Boot Camp and left just 1 week after graduating.

I had no plans of going to college so the Draft and Army were likely in my future, so I chose the Navy. I'd better my chances on the water than the jungles in Nam.

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Time in your life when you felt the most patriotic?

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telling snowflakes to frick off during the Trump years.