"The enemy [always/also] has a vote."

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> quoted:
> the American people's will to protect _their_ national interests can be
> eroded through division and dissent within _their_ own ranks.

He uses the stylistically-obsolescent _their_ and not the younger
_our_ in this environment? I wonder how old the writer is. Or perhaps
he's not an American.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"---a strange complaint
to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
-Mark Twain

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