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To be a good citizen, it's important to be able to put yourself in other people's shoes and see the big picture. If everything you see is rooted in your own identity, that becomes difficult or impossible.

I begin to feel like I was in the last generation of Americans who took a civics class.

I'm a very bad citizen. I've never even voted.

There's no better citizen than a veteran. There's so much waiting for you outside, and it's not something to be intimidated by or scared by; it is something to be embraced.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

After I was discharged from the military, it was difficult trying to become a civilian.

After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had been, consciously and subconsciously, biting my tongue in the past.