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To: butternut_squash_bisque
Alas, nearly 90 percent of Americans can't name the four presidential faces carved into the monument.

This is why our government has strayed so far from what the Founders intended. They don't teach this stuff in school anymore. God help us, but we don't even know who we are anymore.
27 posted on 02/24/2006 12:39:48 PM PST by JamesP81
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To: JamesP81

Spot on, J. In the 50s and early 60s, we were immersed in American History which is almost gone from the schools' cirriculum, these days.


36 posted on 02/24/2006 1:04:09 PM PST by butternut_squash_bisque (Borders, Language, Cultureā„¢)
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