--- David Brin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Everybody, please remind friends in Ohio,
> Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Minnesota, that their great
> grandfathers died at Antietem and Gettysburg,
> fighting
> for the half of the map that's blue.  

I beg your pardon?  As Abraham Lincoln said to General
Meade after Gettysburg, "It's all our soil."  Their
great grandfathers died at Antietam and Gettysburg for
_the whole damn country_, to make sure that it stayed
one country, to make sure that people stopped saying
"The United States are" and started saying "The United
States is."  To say otherwise is to repudiate the very
cause that they fought for.  Surely you don't mean
what you just wrote.

=====
Gautam Mukunda
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Freedom is not free"
http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com


                
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