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   those holding control of that territory was not.   
      
   > And no, I'm NOT biased on account of having now retired to a former   
   > Confederate state; while I have lived in three of those 11 states at one   
   > point or another (Texas, South Carolina quite briefly, and now Florida),   
   > MOST of my life and career have been spent in the Midwest North, the   
   > East and the far West.  Rather, I'm just a fellow who tries to   
   > understand the thinking of those with whom I politically disagree.   
      
   Lifelong Northeasterner and glad of it.   
      
   > Now that I know you are looking forward to looking at the   
   > quite-dour-appearing Harriet Tubman (rather than the stately-appearing   
   > Andrew Jackson) on the $20 bill, I'm anxious to hear what you think   
   > should be done (if anything) with the Confederate White House, and for   
   > that matter too, Richmond's Museum of the Confederacy.   
      
   Anything that glorifies rather than deplores the Rebellion   
   is better demolished.   
   Context is important in how things are remembered.   
      
   > BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
   > =================   
   > * Which I'm guessing you well know was a month before William Hershell   
   > discovered Uranus and about seven months before the British surrender at   
   > Yorktown.   
   > ** Worked as a laborer for Stibal Bricklaying the summer before Boston   
   > University in 1973--and yeah, if I wasn't the boss's son, I would have   
   > been surely fired the first week...as little ol' tenderfoot me sure   
   > ain't cut out for construction-site toil.   
      
   And did you attend any of Isaac Asimov's lectures when at BU?   
   I think he did one a year.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)