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To: Responsibility2nd
I celebrate March as "Celtic" history month. March 1st brings St. David's Day (Patron saint of Wales). March 17th is St. Patrick's Day (another famous Welshman who made good with his career in Ireland).

Fifty percent of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were Welsh...as was the captain of the Mayflower. William Penn (founder of Pennsylvania) and Thomas Jefferson. Nine Presidents of the USA were of Welsh descent. You can real more details here.

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir was initially formed from Welsh immigrants from the village of Merthyr Tydfil. Singing harmony in parts as they descended into the coal mines to work was part of their heritage. The choir leader has always been of Welsh descent.

My family arrived in America via the Mayflower and early Jamestown settlers. There's plenty of history there. We don't have to invent a "month" to celebrate a racially focused view of history. Our legacy is the USA.

73 posted on 02/27/2009 12:06:09 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Myrddin
[Heavy Sarcasm]You Welsh troublemakers are nothing but Commies! Won't you ever stop pushing your national identity on us poor Anglo-Saxons???[/Heavy Sarcasm]
139 posted on 02/27/2009 12:51:09 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Venatatta 'el-ha'aron 'et ha`edut 'asher 'etten 'eleykha.)
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