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To: Pharmboy
Nice. Thanks.

I miss America so much. It's too bad we let it get away from us.

5 posted on 12/23/2013 1:55:47 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Merry Christmas to all my fellow Americans. "Whatever" to everybody else!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer; trisham; Beowulf9; willyd; no-to-illegals; colorado tanker; Salvation; Ditto; ...
Thanks for all your kind words and you are all most welcome! And thanks to those who added material to this post about the General.

I lived in NYC for >25 years, and was a frequent visitor to Fraunces. Some of the meetings of the NYC Chapter of the American Revolution Roundtable were held there.

Now that I live in Maryland, I can get to Mount Vernon more often. But one of my most memorable visits was Christmas Day, 2001; we were visiting my daughter who lived in Alexandria at the time, and by 9:10 AM we were there. They open up some usually closed spaces on that day, and have the table set for Christmas Dinner, 1783.

Finally, I posted the modern picture of Fraunces rather than an old drawing to make sure folks knew that it was still there. I felt a bit ambivalent about the Dodge commercial mentioned, in that I have an aversion to the General being used to sell anything (I detest those mattress sales on "President's Day" with him selling them), but there was a certain dignity that Dodge invested in the General.

38 posted on 12/24/2013 7:08:11 AM PST by Pharmboy (Democrats lie because they must.)
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