Klarinet Archive - Posting 000008.txt from 2004/12

From: Bill Hausmann <bhausmann1@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Happy Thanksgiving - musings from an expatriated
Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 08:05:47 -0500

At 09:36 AM 12/1/2004 +0000, Anna Cecil=EDa Benass=ED wrote:
>...And though Americans (United Statesians?) have been more intensely=
focused
>on their national identity in the past 3 years than they were before
>nine-eleven, we - in my family, at any rate - always felt a spirit of
>thanks for "having it good". In my youth this transcended being American;
>it was more a sense of being grateful for having enough for our needs and
>most of our wants....

I see it as more of a RETURN to traditional patriotic feelings after a=20
period of denial, probably related to guilt over Vietnam.

Bill Hausmann

If you have to mic a saxophone, the rest of the band is TOO LOUD!

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