Historically the members of this board are well trained, some professionally, some self taught, historians and history researchers. The posting of well known, unrelated simplistic facts and assumptions, in a string that was clearly a specific, well thought out, question is annoying. Your post serves no purpose other than promote the posters politics. This type of reply is another form of "drive-by" posting whose purpose is to incite. But I do not see why anyone on those board would be incited, at all, by such a benign grouping of non-related snippets. We have had much more effective "drive-by'ers" in past that successfully incited the emotions of the boards members. Yours seem to just bore everyone. I do not disagree with anyone of your points but I do not see the social or historical value of expressing them as you did.

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David Upton