fuagf -- then again, our states hadn't already been around for hundreds of to over 1,000 years fighting many significant to huge wars betwixt and between (and within), including on their side WWI and WWII -- our Civil War was indeed a mess, but Europe's seen worse, far worse, any number of times
Greensburg, KS - 5/4/07
"Eternal vigilance is the price of Liberty."
from John Philpot Curran, Speech
upon the Right of Election, 1790
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