I find it somewhat ironic, as next year is the "200th Anniversary of the Abolition of the British and U.S. Slave Trade 1807-2007" that Madame Secretary is so opposed to describing what may actually be in fact. On the other hand there are many reasons we fail to acknowledge of our own, e.g., the former Cabinet Secretary of War became the Confederate President, the people who fired on Fort Sumter were a student and teacher at West Point noted in argument while there, where some cadets have died in gunnery exercise. I worked at the Point on hurricane damage archaeology there on "anthrax day" and on the archaeology of the "Swamp Angel" prototype, found across the river in the West Point Foundry, Cold Spring, NY while designed EPA cleanup of spilled heavy metals for NIKE missile's batteries was drawn-up a number of years before.
Another Hudson River iron foundry owner designed the gunpowder mill 30 miles outside Atlanta, Georgia, which General Sherman "missed". He designed it from brochures given him from the "Crystal Palace" exhibitions in London. Some historians think the war may have been shortened by as much as two years and Sherman's war on property avoided, etc. A lot of urine was collected for "the cause".
Tim Russett asked Secretary Rice three times if she was running for President and she said no, I hope that hasn't changed.
Posted by georgejmyers at 04:38 PM : Dec 01, 2006
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