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Archie Moses said:
Today is a good day. 100%

We think differently but want the same thing.

We're privilege to live in the US.
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I love the U.S.A.. I count my lucky stars often. I'm so enamored by the founding of this nation, the civil war this nation fought against itself, WWI, WWII, and the drug war (mostly because of how impactful it has been on my life and my country during my lifetime). I would still die for this nation, any day, any time, any place.

I remember as a teen, we moved into a house that had big picture windows looking at the Wasatch Mountains. As a teen I had a sort of mantra, as I looked at those mountains I told myself that I would give my life so that those mountains belonged to Americans. They represented, more than anything else, what was "home" for me, being able to look at them and know that I was in the place I was born, the place I was raised and the place that I loved.

Serving in the U.S. Navy changed my perspective in a lot of ways. It didn't make me love the U.S. less. In the years after my enlistment ended I was probably more ultra "patriotic" than I had ever been. That's funny in a way because from the early days of my enlistment my wife often commented about how zealous I was (she didn't put it in those terms). I think she said something like I was "militant" and something to the effect that I eager for war. I was. She was right. She laughed it off for the most part, but my wife doesn't mince words or play coy. It took me a long time to digest my experience in the Navy. First, I loved every last minute of it. I love that I did it. There are so many people whom I cherish that I never would have known otherwise. I am from SLC, and that could have been the world I knew. I love SLC and that's why I came back. But I've had very close relationships with people from all over the U.S. and beyond. As I like to always point out, many people in the U.S. military are serving as a path to citizenship. They are not natives fighting for their homeland. They are people fighting to be able to be one of us. That was immensely impactful on me. Serving with them was immensely impactful on me.

I've said something a lot of times, because I think it is the most important thing I learned from my enlistment in the U.S. Navy. It is something I realized quickly upon having the opportunity to visit port cities around the world. That is: Humans are basically all the same. We all want peace, security and the ability to provide for our families. That's who we are, all of us, every person on this planet. No group is wired in some ****ed up way where they don't care about those things. That's who "we" are.

I love the U.S.A.!

I love Salt Lake City!

I love my family and my friends!

I love humans!

I know that we want the same things, because all people want the same things.
 
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