[Ads-l] The United States Is/Are

[Wilson Gray]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 4:27 PM, Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Does anyone know where this originated?


I heard this claim made by Ken Burns in commentary at the end of his 1990
American television documentary miniseries about the American Civil War.

Hadn't heard the claim made before; haven't heard it made since.

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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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