That's American Pride talking right there. Even my father, the epitome of American Pride admits that it was invented in Europe...
An interesting fact though, is that the first manned flight wasn't at Kitty Hawk, it was here in my hometown, Grass Valley California, buy Mr. Lyman Gilmore, a rather crazy old inventor who didn't like to bathe. Due to lack of publicity and population in Grass Valley at the time though, the Wright Brothers went down in history as the fathers of flight.