COO-EE-EE ~~ HERE I AM!

The USA is indeed a great achievement.

I have a much-loved sister-in-law who has lived 50 years in Chicago and brought up a family there. I have cousins in DC & NY & California; and dear and close friends in California, Montana, NY.... I love being there, have always been treated with the utmost of hospitality and kindness and courtesy and made to feel greatly at home, in the land which was, as someone says above, founded largely by the sweat of the rejected of Europe.

On the other hand, there is no gainsaying the truth of the assertion I have made before that, looked at from another POV, as LH has partly hinted above, The Land Of The Free And The Home Of The Brave was founded on a firm & unshakeable basis of genocide and slavery.

Last time I posted that on a thread, Ebbie denounced it as 'piffle!'. She can say it again if she likes; but there will be those among you who will recognise the truth of it: even if it is not necessarily the WHOLE truth...

♥♫❤Michael❤♫♥