Dear John, that was a great tribute to an American Hero. I have printed it out and folded it into my just recently acquired 'Bicentennial Edition' of "Lafayette in America" by Louis Gottschalk, a leatherbound great piece of literature I am proud to own. Cheers, John Merz. From: <jr@jrshelby.com> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 6:22 AM From: John Robertson -------------------- Lafayette's Image Still Looms in D.C. -------------------- WASHINGTON -- In the summer of 1824, an aging French aristocrat with a legendary passion for liberty crossed the Atlantic and went on the road. The return to America of Marie Jean Paul Joseph Roche Yves Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, soon became a legend all its own.