In a message dated 4/9/2003 12:48:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time, alice34@alltel.net writes: > I get lots of patriotic and inspirational messages (jokes too) from friends > and family... > Am I the only one who would like to have the Gen lists I belong to be > Genealogy only ???? > Don't mean to offend anyone, but that is my feeling.....Alice > ****************************************************************************** ********* Dear Alice: I forwarded that message to the list.....you are entitled to you feeling, and I take no personal offense to your words. HOWEVER: (1) You may not be the "only one," but you are in a definite minority. (2) My feeling is one of sympathy for anyone who does not read such messages as the one from this young West Virginian and just SWELL WITH TOTAL PRIDE. Therefore, please accept my sympathy...you apparently need it to survive in this world. (3) Lastly, even if your Saddam Hussein-like approach to this GEN List were the rule, the message VERY MUCH BELONGS to this list.....it's main point concerns a unique American way of family development -- genealogy in the making! And this message is spreading throughout the entire world and comes from a young American woman who resides in West Virginia; how could West Virginians (or those interested in West Virginia) not relish in this story? Perhaps I should reemphasize Point # 2 --- I feel sorry for you! Lee Roland Jenkins