McClatchy Washington Bureau | 09/28/2007 | Congressman: State Dept. official threatened investigators

The Second Amendment guaranteed the right to bear arms in a state militia. At the time, stationed in the Bowery, were the National Guard defending the new republic, which again met there after 9/11/01. Why are "National Guards" (one in the Bowery called out in defense of Washington, D.C. during the Civil War, where the Capitol Dome was being assembled and had been made cast in the Bronx for $1 million for President Lincoln) being used in Iraq when so few and so many in it never saw the Vietnam Conflict?