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From: "Barbara Denno" <>
Subject: Re: [NYDUTCHE] Aged Katie Seaman & [Evacuation Day]
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:13:45 -0400
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Maybe the reason that we do not celebrate this landmark in our country's
history, is that it is divisive. Thousands of colonists who supported the
British were also evacuated, forced to flee to Canada or England, leaving
behind homes, family and friends. Many returned, among them my family
members who were living in Jamaica, Queens since before 1672. They returned
to Duchess and Rennselear counties.

Most of our current holidays celebrate a coming together in a common
cause...Memorial Day, honoring those who died in war (didn't matter what
war, WWI or WWII, Civil War, Spanish-American War, etc). Veterans Day
(Confederate or Union, Army, Navy, Men or Women), and others. Let's keep it
that way! and celebrate the coming together, not the divisions between
"patriot" and "loyalist." Unless it is to educate us about our history in a
way analogous to the internment of the Japanese-Americans during WWII.


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