----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautam Mukunda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 6:00 PM Subject: Re: Brin: some final notes about the aftermath
> --- 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. > Speaking as a homeboy in one of the reddest of the red states, I'll throw in with you Gautam. This is one nation, regardless of who leads it. Regardless of transient divisions. When I wake up on the third, all of you will still be my countrymen and I will owe my allegiance to you above and beyond all other considerations, because the nation is its people more than it's flag, more than the land, more than the government. xponent Vote Ye Bloody Bastards! Maru rob <G> _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
