USAF veteran, 1970-1974. Born and raised in California, but my ancestry is Deep South. Escaped California in the late 1970s. Lived in Louisiana for several years. Now make my home in Illinois because of my job. But, when I retire within the next few years I'm heading back to Dixie to spend the rest of my days.
Proud Patriot, Constitutionalist, and a confirmed and dedicated anti-socialist/anti-leftist. Ronald Reagan was the greatest American president of the 20th century certainly, and perhaps of all American history. I am Southern by heritage, and proud of it. I wish the Civil War had never been fought, but understand fully why the South seceded (I just wish it had never got to that point: nothing is more tragic than brother fighting brother).

I love my family, my country, and freedom, and would give my life for any and all of them.

"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery." Thomas Jefferson.

"Those who beat their swords into plowshares will plow for those who don't." Thomas Jefferson.

"Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women. When it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it." Justice Learned Hand.

The Second Amendment: The original Homeland Security.
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY. And, of course, GOD.

"When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is freedom." Thomas Jefferson.

"Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule." Ought-Six.

"If you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." -- Winston Churchill.