It is often said that America is a nation of immigrants. The original inhabitants, many believe, came across a land or ice bridge where the Bering Strait is now and spread south over the land. During the (European) age of exploration, the Portuguese, the Spanish, the English, and others came to the two American continents, exploited, explored, encroached, settle, and either murdered the previous peoples or drove them onto reservations. Immigration continued with the influx of the French, Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans, Asians. It goes on today, notably with Mexicans coming to the United States to take menial jobs that U. S. citizens, even unemployed citizens, consider too demeaning to take—much to the upset of some who worry about "American culture" (whatever the hell that is!). You get the idea.

The same thing happened in the British Isles. There were the peoples who built such monuments as Stonehenge and other stone circles, and such places of archeological interest as Skara Brae on Orkney. I have yet to hear anything definitive about who they were, where they came from, and how they got there (probably across a land or ice bridge during the last Ice Age). Then came the Celts. Then the Angles. And the Saxons. And the Norsemen, and a bit later, the Normans.

Now come the Pakistanis. The Africans. The Asians. The Middle Easterners. . . .

So, what's new?

By the way, WAV—aka David Franks. The name "Franks." Seems to imply French ancestry. Whence cometh your forebears?

Just curious.

Don Firth