Well, maybe we aren't all Americans here, but I'm sure we all can appreciate the country, even if some of us don't admit it openly.

But regardless of your personal feelings towards the United States, this country is here to stay; after all, even as the majority of U.S. citizens today express some sort of disenchantment with the government, we still manage to remain overwhelmingly patriotic (and even if you don't want to say patriotic things, that's okay in America). In the nearly 220 years our current government has existed, there has only been one serious attempt to secede, and we've gone through 43 presidents so far without a single bloody coup.

The United States of America is something special, and so are its' people. Even if you're a fervent anti-American foreigner, I dare you to look at history and at what so many great Americans have contributed to the world in the fields of Medicine and Science.

Happy birthday, America.