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in response to reader comment: to defend the country that is now theirs, too

Submitted by peter pressure, Mar 6, 2008 20:35

He was refering to the Country, not the land. You know, what makes up a Nation.

A nation is a 'set of people with a common culture who have formed a nation-state or usually aspire to do so' (Viotti and Kauppi, 2001).

Way to down on the MOH speech. Pessimist.

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