Phil,

I like you, and you often have insightful comments to offer.

Those you expressed above I do not count among them.

America is a young country by the world's standards.

We are a wonderful amalgamation of many different heritages.

We are a country of great ideals and principles and a sense of anything being possible.

This ability to remember and honor the past and yet look forward and create the new is uniquely American.

Your posts threaten to derail a productive and friendly discussion.

It is so very very easy to find differences to split us.

It takes better eyes to see the common ground.

I respectfully ask of my American Brothers and Sisters to show a bit of restraint and forgiveness for some of the less than pleasant thoughts in Phil's posts toward our country.

Americans are nothing is not big hearted

Respectfully

Jamie