Chuck Piper, I thank you for your prompt and explanatory reply. I was just asking a question, because, as you know, very few posters on this Forum actually use their own true name. You can write any kind of material you like, when nobody knows who the writer is, and thereby be shielded from any rebuttals to your point of view. I am pleased to learn you are a "red blooded American, that believes in the principles of the land that gave you birth, education, and sustenance, for low, these many years. This was not apparent to me when you said "want to know how I would feel? I would hate the United States." Hatred is like the problems we face, we need to get rid of it. As Grandpa Doug suggests, life is pretty much what we each make of it, and strife and wars, and unfairness, famine and misery, etc, and etc, is of our own doing, since the first day that man trod the earth, and I suggest it will always be thus, until the days of this earth are accomplished, and the judgement of its history and people begin.
I wish you and all others on this great Froum, the best 2003 year the we have ever experienced, and may the Force be with you.
GOD BLESS THE USA------------------ARJ