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Posts from Jim, Gaithersburg, MD

Jim, Gaithersburg, MDJim, Gaithersburg, MD
Jim, Gaithersburg, MD

When the Statue of Liberty was built, nobody had any thought of adding on Emma Lazarus' little quotation. It was slapped on later, as an afterthought.

Personally, I've never been particularly fond of that statement. It implies that the only people who came here from Europe were the leftovers who couldn't make it anywhere else. I think it's just the opposite. They were strong people who found themselves unable to exercise their full potential in a feudal caste system and came here to get away from all that. In the process, they created a nation that quickly overcame, and now outshines by a wide margin, their antecedent "homelands" in the Old World.

I prefer the description attributed to Kit Carson: "The cowards never started, and the weak died along the way".

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