What turned me into a patriot I was raised to be patriotic. But I also came by it honestly. In the mid-eighties I had a problem with a large federal government bureaucracy and it was severely limitiing the quality of my life. With your permission, I'm not going to describe the problem or the federal entity involved because neither is important to the story, and I'd like to remain anonymous. By that time I had completed a class in hypnosis and wanted to try out my persuasion skills.
