[AFret.]

And the nation they saved deserves them less and less each day.

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So true..and so sad..what a nation we once were.

[IronJack]

I'm reading Stephen Ambrose's history of the Transcontinental Railroad, and I ask myself, could this be done today? Or, like the Big Dig or the Freedom Tower in New York, would it be so bogged down by greed and politics that it would die stillborn?

I sincerely doubt we have the backbone to fight a war like these men did. We are the pathetic heirs to a noble legacy. It is only the shame of betraying that legacy that gives me the strength to stay in the fight.