Piers Morgan

And the organization that I raised money for, because it was a charitable thing, you had to have a charity, was the Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund.

And they had a base down in San Antonio.

So I went down there.

And I remember distinctly coming off the plane

And seeing a load of people with flags.

And I couldn't work out what was happening.

I knew it wasn't for me.

American flags.

And it turned out that they were there greeting every single serviceman and woman who came off the planes from whichever war zone they'd come from.

Because there was a big center there, a lot of military service people living in San Antonio.

A lot of them also being treated for serious injuries and so on.

And they were just applauding and thanking them for their service as they came off these planes.

You'd never see that anywhere in the UK.

It just doesn't exist as a concept to do that.

I was very struck by that.

And I do think America generally is a lot more proudly patriotic than we've become.

We've become almost ashamed of being British in a way that I don't like.

I think we should be prouder of ourselves and prouder of what we've achieved and prouder of what we could be.

But one of the reasons why people don't feel that pride, I think, is because we've had a succession of what I would say are pretty hopeless politicians who drag this into a place where people don't like it.

I don't think we hate ourselves.