Memorial day is another reason... One of the best reasons why.

Arlington Cemetary

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Aisne-Marne Cemetery and Memorial in France: 2,289 of our dead

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Ardennes American Cemetery, Belgium: 5,329 of our dead

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Brittany American Cemetery, France: 4,410 of our dead

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Brookwood American Cemetery, England: 468 of our dead

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Cambridge American Cemetery, England: 3,812 of our military dead; 5,127 names are recorded on the Tablets of the Missing

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Epinal American Cemetery, France: 5,255 of our military dead

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Florence American Cemetery, Italy: 4,402 of our military dead

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Manila American Cemetery, Philippines: 17,202 of our military dead

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North Africa American Cemetery, Tunisia: 2,841 of our military dead

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Normandy, France: 9,387 of our military dead

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Flanders Field American Cemetery, Belgium: 368 of our military dead

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Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery, Belgium: 7,992 of our military dead

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This generation forgets what the Greatest Generation did for our country, and the world. Today is to remember their sacrifice.

Jesus these threads always kill me LOL

To each their own folks.

There are a ton of excellent countries out there... USA, Canada, Switzerland, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, etc. In my opinion, the USA is the top country in the World to live if you want to get rich, but I personally think countries that better look after their poor & needy are overall "better" (the fact that people get kicked out of hospitals, etc. in the USA is just fucked). To each their own though, Americans are EXTREMELY generous and charitable people, they are true innovators and have lead the World to many cutting edge medical breakthroughs, etc. The fact that 13 million families live in gated communities there is fucked though, I'm happy here in Canada but I consider tons of countries out there to be "great".

The best ... in what?:error

Lets not forget that the WW2 began in 1939 and not on a D-day in 1944. lets not forget millions of other soldiers who died during cold winters of 1942, 43 and 44 waiting for alied forces to help them out in their fight with Nazis in Europe. far more died in those 3 years.

Absolutely many died for their country, but today is Memorial Day for us.

Bottom line,

there are negative aspects about every country out there.

To me, our good qualities far outweigh the bad ones.

People get lost in the hype, Americans are generally good for the most part.

Yes there is ignorance, but this is universal.

One thing I cannot stand is anyone from Europe bad mouthing the USA when they aren't even knowledgeable to have an opinion on the subject, just as I don't for their country.

It's a horse of a different color, people ARE allowed to disagree and hold firm on their own beliefs, but don't let stupid shit fly out of the side of your mouth while voicing your opinion.. and if you do, expect to get cracked :2 cents:

..and what does this have to do with the topic of the thread?

and that goes with "USA is the BEST country in the world " how? You said 'another reason'..

I've traveled pretty extensively.. I would say, overall, the USA is the best. However, there are other places I'd rather live if certain things were in place. Switzerland & Italy(retirement) to name a couple.

Doug E, I've walked down the street in east St. Louis hundreds of times and never gotten mugged or shot at. I spent 30 days in southern Europe and had more than a dozen attempts for my wallet and 3 knives pulled on me. Just because gang members and drug dealers kill each other.. doesn't mean they're gonna kill you or your family. And the good thing about America is.. you can have as many guns in your home as you'd like to make sure that family is protected.

I'm still waiting for someone to post the objective criteria that makes it possible to determine the "best" country in the world.

Or was I correct when I said it's entirely subjective and a pointless exercise?

USA also a sleeping giant

Try New Orleans. Great place to get mugged.

you went a bit overboard with the freedom part... lol

ok, first of all, hello over there and have a great Memorial Day, respet!.

Then you will be fucking me because of my nickname, i know you, but, i'm from Uruguay, and i'm living in Uruguay, i'm not a Mexican, or Cuban, or an illegal beaner, nor any of those racist adjectives you have to name people who doesn't speak English.

I must say that i barely post anything in this board but i find this topic very interesting, its always good to talk bad about USA and its world crimes.

U.S. is not the best country in the world, far from that, it's just a Big country that HAD lots of money for lots of people, just that, please don't get confused, because you had money 2 years ago to buy Ferraris or Chryslers, doesn't mean you're the best country in the world. Now you don't even have Chryslers anymore.

The thing about comparing the U.S. with other countries is that, U.S. is far behind them, you can read Michael Moore if you want, and he'll let you know where you're stepping. England kicks U.S. ass in lots of things, one of them, Health System. France, Italy, Germany, and even Spain are kicking u.s.a ass, not only in Health System, Educational Systems too, they can study for free in University, and they're much better than average U.S. graduates.

Then, the worse thing about US is that, its been worried during the past 100 years to tell the world that it is in fact the best country in the world, and they forget to show the world why they are the best country.

U.S. its been paying military goverments all around Latin and South America to keep them shut and doing what Uncle Sam wants. That doesn't happened with Cuba and Fidel Castro, now, see how things are, U.S. blocked Cuba's international trades and markets by threating the world with ''if you buy or sell to Cuba, the comunists, we won't buy you, and remember, we're the best country in the world, you need us''. Now Uncle Sam is on his knees and Cuba, Fidel and the ''red comunists'' are still there, without money, but with great education and the best MD's and athlets in the world, they stood still without Dollars ;).
BTW, where is Nixon and watergate? where is JFK? you killed a president because he was catholic?! what the fuck is on your minds?

Do you remember when Jhon Rambo was friend of Afghan people? now you hate Afghanistan. Do u remember when you trained those Bin Laden's friends? now you say they're terrorists.
Tell me something Bush lovers that voted for that donkey 2 times and the texas cowboy fucked you up 2 fucking times, and left you a fucked inheritance, don't you know that with all the money you spent in wars over the past 100 years you could be the most important and greatest country in the world?. No you don't, you're just too worried saying, ''we're the greatest country''. Having a gun doesn't make you better than the rest of the un-gunned countries. You just think you can go and shot every country you want because they have petrol, and you say ''they have nuclear weapons'' to cover it. WHERE THE FUCK were the Saddam Hussein's nukes? im not saying the guy was a good guy, far from that, but, who the fuck are you U.S to decide who lives and who dies?.

Uncle Sam is an old and creepy bastard trying to say the world ''im still the best'' selling Hollywood crapshit, because he can't say ''live the American Dream'' anymore, banks are down, loans are closed, and now you're feeling bad because you won't be able to buy the 10th plasma for your pimp home. Come on people, you don't need a plasma to feel good. U.S is not the number 1 country in the world. Even Jamaica is better than you. You confuse having money with the treatment you give to people, no man, it doesn't matter if you have money, a guy deserves to live besides his Life or Medical Ensurance, a girl deserves to study in the best Universities besides their poor parents that work they ass all day and can't afford Harvard. A Mexican deserves to live in peace, not fighting wars because Bush wanted to make turby biz with the Bin Laden's family.

Now i must say that this new president you got its making things much more better than what i expected, well, he's probably the first intelligent President you got in the last 120 years. Now, don't think that he will save your asses moving numbers and making the consumism and capitalism the daily routine again. Change your fucking mind and you'll be the best country in the world. Getting Obama as the president was a nice and very important step, now open your mind and study a bit the rest of the world, we also exist, and as i said, even Cuba is safer , sometimes and in some places better than U.S. find out how many bank robberies were done in Cuba in the last 80 years. Only 2.

well, i said a lot, and i learnt all that U.S. history small screen in my FREE FOR ALL CITIZENS High School in Uruguay, we also have free4all health system, Universities, Sport campus and we don't live in a bubble, we study the rest of the world. See? even Uruguay is better than U.S. in some point.

Cya guys, go get a Chrysler...if you find one.

hehehe, not a single amswer?.

lived there, never again

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I think that you never answered because you were with family at the memorial day, don't get too horny.

Well yes all what i wrote was wrote by me, and of course it's a personal opinion, but there are a lot of true facts that you're avoiding because you don't want to say ''you're right, we make a lot of shitty stuff''. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and a lot more were just revolutionaries at their time. Before they get inside Cuba, U.S. was inside paying the government to keep people controlled by the force of Soldiers. Thats a Dictated Government paid by another country, thats the main reason why U.S got mad with Cuba, that's why the commerce trade block, the illegal trade block, and main reason is: Fidel came inside Cuba, take the U.S. companies and older dictators away from the island, and U.S. didn't had power anymore with that island. Its just a tiny fucking island, nobody cares a shit about a tiny fucking island, but you just want to rule the whole world, even that tiny island. Now, while you were surprised with what Cuba was doing to your asses, Nixon and JFK were paying a lot of south american Governments to keep them in a Dictated Government.

You asked why you were the best, and i'm saying you're not the best, because of those TRUE FACTS that you CAN'T DENY.
And, i'm not saying that my country is the best in the world, i don't even give a shit if we're the best or not, i just like to live here, same way you do in the U.S. ¿Do you know if i've been there? or in Cuba? have you been in Cuba? have you been in Uruguay? have you been in Afghanistan? shut up JC, stop talking and start doing.

But you also must know that, we're hammers, tools and work hands, yes, but we like to be the ones that do things, not like you that get everything with money, and you don't even know what happens outside CNN's and News channels. We love to take your dollars out of your pocket, you feel good paying because you feel SOMETHING & SOMEONE with dollars in your pocket or feeding a ''little beaner'', we feel good being honest people with equal treatment no matter if you're black or white or asian or lesbian AND, taking your dollars out of your pocket, so don't think you're the intelligent here, you're selfish, you like to be millionaire, we want to share the millions we take you out, we feed more people minds buying books instead of guns and cocaine.

And i must also say to you, U.S., that you don't know shit about suffering, about going to jail because of your ideas, getting shot because you think different way the Army Government does. You don't know shit, YOU DON'T KNOW A BABY SHIT ABOUT HUMANITY, so don't say you're the best country in the world when you go country by country finishing their people, trying to make them dumb and torturing them because they are from different religions or they just want to think different and IN FREEDOM, that fucking thing you keep pronouncing and you DON'T DO SHIT FOR.

As i said, go get an Italian Fiat, cus you don't have Chryslers anymore.

well said

It was a moronic post. I wouldn't have replied if not for you and yet another stupid post.

i can't agree more with you :pimp

i had to say another thing here, because i don't want to be miss-understood, usa, as a global thing, as the thing, is a bit shitty, not everything, but its always into something dirty, so its not the greatest country in the world. But, it has some places, a lot of them, that are really great, and even in the dirty places, a lot of them too, are great places, like NYC, that has shit, butter, and cream. You just need to know the place where you're stepping and you'll like to live there. the us citizens are mostly good people, like in every other country, but the important decisions that make an opinion to the rest of the world, and mostly in big countries like the U.S.A, are took by their politicians, that make the world's country image, and sometimes its said that ''every people has the government that deserves''. Maybe you deserved Obama this time :). I don't want to make an international shitty thing about this and about what the politics are, but that's the ugly truth. Anyways, im sorry if anyone got offended, wasn't my intention, my point was just to make a discussion and you didn't liked that:). My Bad.

Best country based on what? The UN Human Development Report rates the countries in terms of their "human development index": a statistical analysis of factors that influence a person's quality of life, such as per capita gross domestic product and life expectancy.

Might look that up, USA not at the top, but not far behind either. Iceland was the best on 07/08, USA 12th.