[Equality 7-2521]

If it's not too much trouble, I would like to be added to your flag list as well. I'm right up in Rockford, BTW.

[A.J.Armitage]

Northern Illinois University, where I am, was almost in Rockford. The committee deciding the location wanted a good sized river, so the folks in DeKalb, led by the inventer of barbed wire, dammed the Kishwaukee upstream of the potential site, and released it just before the commitee came to have a look. The rest is history. I heard about that while taking the tour of campus during orientation.