of the brutal and racist beginnings of the U.S. and the way they behaved during the founding of their country (even though they abhor and protest the same behaviour in other countries today...). To quote one comment on the article: "The Mexican War was basically a land grab by the United States." How very true.
The Irish Soldiers of Mexico
And the anti-Catholic prejudice still exists today in Calvinist, Protestant America. The last acceptable prejudice...
Silent Servants...
... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.
A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)
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