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djean111's avatar

Thank you for that perspective. Clear and useful.

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Thom Paine's avatar

The United States had a right to protect itself (sarcasm emoji here)

It could be that the current situation maybe the Evil (U.S.) Empire getting what it deserves.

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Ohio Barbarian's avatar

National karma? Sure. It's unavoidable. By squarely facing our past, we can learn from it and make our kids' future better.

If not, there's really no point.

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Thom Paine's avatar

I am a boomer. My generation was raised to believe (blind faith) in authority. We were shielded by the media from the atrocities of Vietnam and what the CI A was doing in South America, etc. I doubt that my generation can truthfully face our past via heavy denial.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

Bury my head at Greasy Grass this much fighting is too much to bear.

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Nathan Keller's avatar

My grasp of our situation was thusly: women and me of course, me too, take a hard time getting started. Now i believe your local ladyfriend has rearranged her schedule tobwhere if you buy the gas to drive somewhere to make a pots and pans and hopefully, an M 80 noise about gaza she will partcpt. I am travelling for 4 days one 11 hiurs on the greyhound, i will weigh if me and she have the redhot hate to rage against this bloody Ai machine.

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Mark Keating's avatar

Interesting. One hundred sixty acres (320 for a married couple) was also the allotment of irrigated land in the American West given to farmers by the Bureau of Reclamation in the 1930s and onward. Is 160 some magic number that I don't know about?

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