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A personal story about the ignorance of the average American [View all]
Many years ago when my family was on vacation, we stopped in a smaller town in Pennsylvania. We went out to dinner at a decent Italian restaurant and I noticed an older couple sitting next to us. The man was reading the menu to his wife and at first I thought it was real sweet. Then it dawned on me that she was illiterate and couldn't read the menu herself. I was pretty shocked at this.
Now when I hear the statistics I'm not surprised in the least.
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