Reg Edwards wrote:
Thank heavens, on the Internet, the English and American lanuages are
drawing closely together. But I am still inclined to draw a
distinction beween Americans and USA citizens. They are different!

And Texans are even more so. Ours is the only state whose
flag is allowed to be flown at an equal height with the
US flag. (Some places around here fly the Texas flag an
inch or so higher than that damned Yankee flag. :-) Texas
was the only state having the legal right to seceed from
the USA during the Civil War. The last battle of the Civil
war was fought near Brownsville, TX and the South won.

Reg, I saw a program on "The Discovery Channel:
Ice Age Columbus: Who Were the First Americans?" It
said, based on the latest arrowhead and tool archaeological
evidence, that America was discovered by sea-going ice-age
Europeans 17,000 years before Columbus made his voyage. It
was asserted that some Native Americans still carry the
genetic markers donated by those early Europeans.
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73, Cecil http://www.qsl.net/w5dxp