You are so right! "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there". Will Rogers In a message dated 10/1/2008 5:58:20 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, nymets22@gmail.com writes: The USA did the same with the Native Americans. Pres. Jackson ordered them all to the West of the Mississippi River onto reservations. Then took their children to residential religious schools. Speaking their native language was forbidden and only English could be spoken. Sound familiar? However, I don't hear the outrage in America about the Native American condition still going as I as I do about Cromwell...maybe we should take care of our own faults first. Just an observation. > Your points taken and understood, however,many perished as they followed > their former landlords on foot out into the west. Many more who were not > nobility were forced to settle in places that until other minor islands off the > coast of Conamara... -- Pat Connors, visiting Dublin, Ireland (born in USA, living in Sacramento CA) http://www.connorsgenealogy.com ====Irish American Mailing List===== Add/check your surname to the Irish-American mailing list Surname Registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/IrishAmerican/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRISH-AMERICAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message **************Looking for simple solutions to your real-life financial challenges? Check out WalletPop for the latest news and information, tips and calculators. (http://www.walletpop.com/?NCID=emlcntuswall00000001)