Patriot's Journey: a challenge

This one's for my American friends:

The challenge is to contemplate your patriotism. This is not one of those partisan political opportunities, where we claim one political stance or another is superior, it's much easier and (should be) less contentious than that.

Every day between Memorial Day and Independance Day, express one unequivocably positive thing about our country. That's it. That's the challenge.

The original idea was created by Drumwaster, I'm modifying it a little bit. The original idea is to post to one's blog. I would throw the loop wider, and challenge you all to create a blog post, comment on someone else's blog or website (in appropriate forums and manner of course), write an email to anyone, or even just express verbally (to another person- bonus points for strangers) at some point during your day, something that you appreciate about the land that shelters you.

It shouldn't be too hard. It doesn't have to be especially profound. But the exercise of actually expressing it is an opportunity to reflect, and discover some things about ourselves and our homeland. It's a sort of spiritual pilgrimmage where you don't have to actually go anywhere!