Being an American is being proud to be a part of a community of people working together for a life full of success and opportunity for themselves and generations to come after them. Being an American means to have passion, enthusiasm, and spirit to live in a free country, this country. having the ability to do whatever you want while being proud, strong and hopeful for a country full of freedom, full of opportunity and full of success, is all what it means to be an American. Being an American is having spirit and patriotism, devoted love, support, and defense of one's country; national loyalty is what it means to be an American.
Being an American is having spirit and love and devotion to this country. This is displayed in In Veterans Day: Never Forget Their Duty, by: John McCain, in spring board pages six and seven in paragraph five, McCain expresses, "Mike had a keen and deep appreciation for the opportunities …show more content…
In the same essay by John McCain, McCain gives a great example of patriotism in paragraph 14, McCain shows this by saying "He was not making the flag because it made Mike Christian feel better. He was making that flag because he knew how important it was for us to be able to pledge our allegiance to our flag and country." Mike had sewn a second flag even after he had received a severe beating for a couple hours’ only moments before for sewing an American flag previously on his shirt, Mike has great appreciation for his country and he believes that it is important for all of us to pledge our allegiance to our flag and for our country. Mike is a proud, strong and hopeful American. Mike will do what he believes in and what he believes what is right and he will do it for his country and "For all the thousands of Americans who, with courage, with their sacrifice and with their lives, made those words live for all of