I am one of those who said his heritage isn’t that important. It can be of passing interest, and some of the stories of my grandparents are interesting, but I have no loyalty to Scotland or Mexico. My ancestors were not treated well in either country, and I feel very little cultural affinity.
The heritage I feel strongly about is as a patriot. I get verklempt thinking of what the Continental soldiers went through fighting for our freedom, what the Union boys endured to defeat the traitorous South, what the GIs of my parents’ generation suffered fighting the Nazis. And also the heroism of FDR taking on the banks, and the migrants escaping the dust bowl.