The French have been bad-mouthing Americans since at least as far back as the Battle of Savannah, but I guess that's to be expected from a nation that talks pretty but seldom bathes. Sunshine49 <[log in to unmask]> wrote: For any of you who are not from the south, or Virginia [since that's what this list is about], to sit and pontificate and tell us in Virginia and the south what's wrong with us, what you know about us that is so much more right than what we know about ourselves, and why we are wrong to think and feel what we do, is as insulting and infuriating to us as it would be if scholars in France and Brazil and Korea were to sit, backed up by all the volumes they've read and the papers they've written, the many many references they have that put Americans in a very bad light [you know they could find many], and tell us what we are supposed to feel about 9/11 and why we are wrong to feel the way we do. Let's have a French scholar tell us how we are supposed to feel about what happened to us on 9/11. And if we feel otherwise, we are wrong. How would you feel about that? Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html