we who loved America part 2

We who loved America (second part) I enjoyed  America and remember touring  a Sunday outside Houston (Texas), met in a café a group of openly armed, elderly men  they were courteous people one could meet  I understood guns have cultural meaning in America, we in Europe don't understand  I remember a saying, "A country where the populace  is armed, people are polite." I stayed on the ship longer than needed but had to go home and get educated, I studied management  and later ran a restaurant  I was never at ease in my country, not that I suffer Drapetomania, trying to escape my past, but I was back on a ship again, this time as chief steward plying the waters of America and the Caribbean.