I Almost Left
What kept a Canadian-born American combat vet from going home.
I still have my Canadian birth certificate. Born there. That never expires. But I also have my old CAC (military ID) and my current US passport. More than that, I have 40 years invested in the idea of an America I thought the majority of my fellow Americans wanted.
I’ve looked into repatriating to my birth country more than once this past year. Not nostalgically. Practically. I was doing the math. What it would take to reclaim my heritage, cross back north, park the travel trailer somewhere in British Columbia, and let my adopted country eat itself without me in it.
I wasn’t daydreaming. I was planning.
A stacked supreme court. A cult built around a man who wouldn’t survive a week in the places I grew up. Republican bootlickers. The toxic two-party dirty money system. Zionism and genocide. American diplomacy turned into pure braggadocio and bull…
