another thing.

Here's to all the veterans who have given so much to serve their country and those in other countries. Here's to all the service-men and women who are presently out there around the globe doing the same.
in addition to the post below: I would like to say that although Autumn does coorelate Chinese to herself, we have also let her know that she is an American which coming from her sounds like "merkan".
We only hope that some day she'll be proud to have both heritages and truly understand what it means to be American...and Chinese.