Even though he is Asian and lives in Alabama?
Sure, why not? He's an engineer building useful stuff. By the way, he's back in Korea getting ready to be sent by his company to Vietnam.
I've got a cousin from Alabama and her husband who are both PhDs in chemical engineering. I'm also proud of her. She and her husband are currently professors at Princeton.
My brother was in the Marines.
I was in combat in the Army and worked as an electronics engineer at Tektronix working on oscilloscopes and test and measurement instrumentation. I've worked on an armored vehicle that kills enemy tanks at Emerson Electric and on nuclear missiles and jumbo jets at Boeing. I'm proud of that.
My father was a bricklayer, finish carpenter and home builder. I'm proud of that. He was also the most well read man I've ever known.
Two of my cousins worked fabricating and installing marble, slate and granite.
My wife worked in production and belonged to a union. I belonged to an engineers' union.
My grandmother was a seamstress for Arrow shirts in Georgia.
A grandfather was a machinist in Alabama. Another grandfather worked for the railroad in North East Washington state.
I had an uncle in Alabama who owned three businesses: A cafe, a fence company and a lumber mill.
I had two uncles in the paratroopers. Two served at Normandy and one at Anzio and Korea during the Korean war. A fourth uncle was in the Bataan Death March. My dad served on a B17 during WWII.
There are many more hard working relatives of mine and I am proud of all of them including my wife's niece's husband.
By the way, for any who question my patriotism, I've got a 20 ft. lighted flag pole in my front yard with an American flag and a US Army flag flying proudly.
