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"They all left the state for school or the army."

And here is Byrd railing against our troops in Iraq when a goodly proportion of them are from the state that idiot represents! What's wrong with this picture?

WV is truly a state of opposites. Haves and have-nots, run down, no-plumbing shacks and the mansions of the trial lawyers on top of the hills in Charleston, Republicans that work for change (Shelley Moore) and demogogues (Byrd, Manchin, Mollohan, Rahall)whose views are outdated and do nothing for the state, the ugliness of ghost town downtowns (Wheeling, Huntington) and beauty of Monroe County.

I left. I have no regrets because there was no opportunity there. I love the state and return often. But I cry for it, too.