Johnny Townsend: There is no need to ration our rights

On Thanksgiving Day 1981, I was a Mormon missionary living in Naples, and our mission president allowed us to spend the holiday with Americans stationed at the U.S. Navy base near Capodichino. Sister Costantino had come with her American companion and spoke no English. But she was able to point out how romanticizing our superiority led us to ignore reality.When the radio played Neil Diamond’s “America,” she asked me to translate the lyrics. I’d hardly made it through thre