Kyrhah: Ok, I know you and others won't like my answer, but as it is, this is a free forum.
I lived 17 years in the US, went back to Germany July 2004 because I just knew that the elections will be turked so he would stay in office....
But my real question to your post is:
What are you Americans so damn proud of ????
That you all are the descendants of those misfits which the whole of Europe has tossed on a boat or two or three (hey, who is counting?!) to get rid of them and sent them over to the new world ???
I lived over there long enough and in different parts of the US to be able to form an honest opinion of you folks - and that is not a good one !
Yes, we Germans did lots of horrible things and so did the British, Romans, French, and the rest of the world....but look what y'all did - starting from the Native American Wars to invading Iraq, just to make a point here - and by the way: my grandfather died through a firing squad in concentration camp where he was held as a political prisoner because he helped many, many Jews and others who wanted to get out of Germany !!! And I am damn proud of him !!!!
But tell me: What homeland are you really proud of ? What is it the Americans really did on their own ????? You stole everything and everybody - just look at Oppenheimer, Wernher von Braun etc...
Oh, you don't know who they are ???? Well, Google Them !!!
I think your school system is the worst in the Western World, you don't learn anything about the rest of the world, let alone do you care about the rest of the world !!!1
What is this "God save the US" What about the rest of the world ???? Are you something better than we ???? Why can't god save all the countries of the world ???
Just a few thoughts to reflect on - and, if you really are SO OPEN as you state, you will think about it and come up with a total different view on everything !
Pisses you off to know though that in spite of von Braun,the first one to successfully launch a liquid Fueled Rocket was an American,Robert H.Goddard.
And J. Robert Oppenheimer was an American Physicist born in NY 1904!