Americans remain the most generous people on the world.

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I was born with an innate sense of patriotism. Thus I asked my mother why my pencils were American made whilst my grade school classmates endure the hard lead writing materials that can barely produce readable words. My mother was then a secretary at the US Naval Depot. She gets to bring home her steno notebooks and black pencils to transcribe work at home. Before the pencils get totally used, they land in my pencil case and I would trade them for the usual yellow pencils my classmates use. Who would want to be different from the others? Not me. And then my mom answered my query..."By and large, the Americans are the most helpful and generous people in the world." I weighed that response to my pencil question through the years. Yesterday, the news aired how so many anonymous Americans have come to the aid of people devastated by natural calamities, terminal illnesses like cancer, financially burdened families, and so on. I remembered my mom's answer. Yes, the world has hope because the Americans are still there to come to aid.