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To: FreedomFriend
I saw it happen in my school. I remember saying the Pledge of Allegiance every day in 2nd grade, but by 5th grade it had disappeared and every Friday we had sing-alongs. The songs? "The Answer is Blowing in the Wind," "One Tin Soldier," anti-war stuff.

It doesn't get any better at the university level. Not long ago I had to read a book on Meso-America where, of course, the Evil United Fruit Company was dwelt upon long and hard. My favorite part was where the author tells us ominously, "by 1950, the UFC had total control of Guatemala's railroads!" Only later, doing my own web-search, did I find this little interesting detail: the UFC were the ones who BUILT the railroads.

66 posted on 10/18/2001 1:20:12 PM PDT by Anamensis
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To: Anamensis
Did they make it out to seem that the UFC had taken, unlawfully, control of the railroads?
70 posted on 10/18/2001 2:17:28 PM PDT by FreedomFriend
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