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I'm thinking that it's ironic that the Germans and Russians were invited to celebrate the triumph of freedom over totalitarianism -- but not the Americans
I did discover what has happened to American patriotism, however.
It's been kidnapped
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the state is rushing to prepare a media strategy for a major catastrophe.
"I just hope a pandemic doesn't hit in the next few weeks or months," he said.

The raw, unvarnished fact is that some biological calamity is going to hit. Someday. Probably sooner than later.

Maybe it will be terrorists spreading smallpox, anthrax or botulism.
Maybe the avian flu will mutate so that it can spread from bird to human to human to human to many, many more humans.

In 1918, for example, the "Spanish flu" killed more people than World War I. The bug was responsible for 20 million to 50 million deaths. Half a million Americans died.
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henry
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Avery