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You're right, Minty. I corrected that statement up above after I looked up the results of the most recent vote. My father also served in both the Marines and the Air Force.

As to a comment made elsewhere about a conservative supporting statehood: while I have no strong preference on the matter, my grandfather is a perfect example of a staunch conservative who strongly supports statehood. Why? Because he happens to love this country and everything it stands for and would like to see PR become a full-fledged active part of it. I can think of one large piece of southern territory that didn't always feel that way but still enjoys statehood now.

Statehood for Puerto Rico will cost the U.S. Taxpayers at least $30 billion dollars each year and make our Congress hopelessly Liberal for all eternity.

I'm sorry, but the price tag for making Puerto Rico feel good about itself is just way too dam high.

I want statehood too. My family have been pro-statehood generation after generation since the American entered the island.

About 10 years ago an uncle I had died who used to be alive when the Americans entered the island. He used to tell us about the abuses at the hands of the Spanish guards. He was black and married my aunt who could not be more white unless she would turn albino.

He was the most republican of us all. In a way he was a father figure to us, a man of honor and strenght who had only one word and always stood by it and he influenced all of our lives with his example. In a way we stand worlds apart but in truth it is all the same. When I add and substract I still find his mindset in the midst of my heart and I agree with him, America is a great country! Even with all its internal conflicts and contradictions, America is the remains the greatest country of this world. He used to say; "los americanos son la changa maximina" which meant that nobody could outwit the American ingeniosity. His lifelong dream was to see the island become a state. He passed that unto us.

America is my country, I am proud to be american but most of all I LOVE this country with all my heart.