Patriotism doesn't have to be to a country, it can be to a "cause", as what happened to my own great-great-grandfather in 1861 right here in Tennessee, who was patriotic to what is referred to now as the "Great Lost Cause", and lost his life because of it. Someone once said that "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel", as can be clearly observed by some who use any issue, whether it be the tragedy of Sept. 11, or child nudity, to advance their own political agenda when they could care less what feelings of others they trample in order to do so, or anything about the REAL issues they are "using". In another case of patriotism to a lost cause, in Tennessee just recently the posting of the judeo/Christian "10 Commandments" in government public courthouses went to a full blown court trial at a cost to the taxpayers of thousands and thousands of dollars, even after the state Attorney General told them that they were clearly breaking constitutional law and should back down. Political posturing at the expense of others is nothing new; "patriots" do it all the time... it is rampant here in this state at least. Hey, we're the state who gave you the Scopes Monkey Trials AND Renderosity! We is on a roll!!!