Happy Birthday to Us!

Yesterday whilst traveling by bus, our driver, an Alaskan, shared with us some history and folklore of his state.  He mentioned that there is a small part of the Aleutian Islands that is the only U.S. real estate ever to have been occupied by foreign nationals.

There happened to be a British couple with us and the husband, under his breath, "hmpf...seems that WE once occupied your country too."

I wanted to respond along the lines of "yeah, until we opened a serious can of whoop a** on you" but figured that he was going to be spending today surrounded by people celebrating his loss and thought better of it.

I should have referred him to Colin Powell's book:  "Get mad, then get over it!" (because personally I think holding a grudge for 230+ years - not to mention how many generations? - is really taking things a bit too personally!)

Have a Happy 4th of July!

~later, tw