On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:25:21 -0800, David Friedman
<ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <fq2jui$4l0$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> The US of course celebrates its victory over your country, but I don't
>> think you take offense. Do you?
>>
>
>What victory over Britain? Are you talking about the victory of brave
>British colonists over a Hanoverian king and his Hessian mercenaries?
Actually July 4th celebrates the beginning, July 4th, 1776, the first
public reading of the U.S. Declaration of Independence, not the end,
of the revolution, . That would be October 19, 1781, when Cornwallis
surrendered.
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I pledge allegiance to the Constitution of the United States of America,
and to the republic which it established, one nation, from many peoples,
promising liberty and justice for all.
Feel free to use the above variant pledge in your own postings.
Tim Merrigan
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