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bucolic_frolic

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5. And that's the American story for most immigrants.

Reply to Rhiannon12866 (Reply #4)

Mon Apr 21, 2025, 08:00 AM

Apr 21

Life free enough they fought to defend it. Same in my family. A great uncle gassed post-armistice, 1918. Shortened his life, often in and out of veterans homes. My uncle, permanent PTSD, undiagnosed in the day. Heroism, tragedy, but always the fight to improve things. Until Krasnov.

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Trump is So Dangerous Lifelong Conservatives are Calling for Revolution?!? - Thom Hartmann [View all] Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 OP

David Brooks didn't just decide to publish this on a whim bucolic_frolic Apr 21 #1

Thanks for the additional information! Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 #2

There were potato famines in Ireland bucolic_frolic Apr 21 #3

I've been to Ireland twice and I stood on the docks from where the ships left at that time Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 #4

And that's the American story for most immigrants. bucolic_frolic Apr 21 #5

Oh, I am so sorry! Rhiannon12866 Apr 21 #6

"Comprehensive national civic uprising"? Does David Brooks not know what is going on across the country? yellow dahlia Apr 22 #7