"If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us!...But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives is a lantern on the stern which shines only on the waves behind us."... Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834) English poet and critic. In a message dated 1/21/04 1:30:48 PM Eastern Standard Time, kmcgee03@earthlink.net writes: > Thanks Eleanor. At first I thought just that. But then with some of the > comments and all, I thought maybe we were getting ready to really fight the > War again ... Can't imagine it, but the attitudes in favor of it seem to > still be there <smile> History certainly does seem to repeat itself. > >