For years I have kept my real name hidden behind my DU user name.

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5. That was a good read.

MOST thought-provoking. Thanks, Matt!

And thank you for reintroducing yourself.

It’s just a shame that so many Americans would gladly spit on the beautiful and compassionate words on that plaque, these days.

And here I thought that ALL of us in this country have bloodlines from elsewhere. All of us except the tribes who were here first - unless you remember that THEIR ancestors likely migrated from the greater Asia area via the continental far north.

Pretty much everybody here is from somewhere else, in earlier eras.