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“You will generally observe that, of all Americans, your foreign-born citizens are the most patriotic--especially toward the Fourth of July.”...
I remembered it Monday afternoon when a technician born in Rumania administered my echocardiogram, a cardiologist from Syria examined me and a Mexican-born mechanic give me a lift home from his garage. The narrator, White-Jacket, reports:
“It is sometimes the custom in the American Navy to celebrate this national holiday by doubling the allowance of spirits to the men; that is, if the ship happen to be lying in harbour. The effects of this patriotic plan may be easily imagined: the whole ship is converted into a dram-shop; and the intoxicated sailors reel about, on all three decks, singing, howling, and fighting.”...
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