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 In <5k3g8b$u8n@portal.gmu.edu> mshinn@osf1.gmu.edu (Michael T Shinn)
 writes:

[snip]

>: % If we buy into that logic, then a large measure of the
>: % units today would be flying confederate flags.
>
>: There is one on my Batallion crest, but hey, who's counting.  Due
>: to the fact that the WBTS was a civil war, the regiments on the
>: loosing side ended up in the same Army.  
>
> Aha - so its an army now?  Sure there not in the same militia?
> (Forget it, you made my point)
>
> (WBTS... call it what it was The Civil War... sheesh, maybe the death
> of deterministic statehood and the birth of grand federalism.. but
> WBTS?)

   As a transplanted Son of Virginia (Fort Useless <g>), I refer the
 American conflict of the 1860's as "The War of Northern Aggression."

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> M. Shinn

 --John Johnson

 "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
                       --George Santayana, American Philosopher

 "The further backward you look, the further forward you can see."
                       -- Winston Churchill

 "Decency, security and liberty alike demand that government
 officials shall be subjected to the same rules of conduct that
 are commands to the citizen.  In a government of laws, existence
 of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the
 law scrupulously."    --Justice Louis D. Brandeis, dissenting,
                         Olmstead v. U.S., 277 U.S. 438 (1928)

 "It would...be strange to find in the midst of a catalog of the
 rights of individuals a provision securing to the states the
 right to maintain a designated 'Militia' -- and to find that
 purely institutional guarantee accorded a position of great
 prominence immediately following freedom of religion and freedom
 of speech." (Italics in original)
                       --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
                         on the Second Amendment:
                         (A Matter of Interpretation: Federal
                         Courts and the Law, Princeton
                         University Press, 1997, 159 pages.)

 "Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be
 maintained; for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
                       --Abraham Lincoln

 ATTENTION citizens near the east coast! That rumbling sound you
 hear is NOT an earthquake! It's just the sounds of Washington,
 Hamilton, Jefferson, Allen, Witherspoon, et al; spinning in their
 graves!               --John Johnson (1996)

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