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Entry: Homo Americanus Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/homo_americanus#3526 Post contents: Moreover: My father told me what his father told him, who hailed from Breathitt County in eastern KY. In April 1917 every male of age in that county needed no draft; they all volunteered, led by my Great Uncle "Captain" Jack; even my Great Uncle Selden, at 16, went as a mess boy. All of them were of Borderer Backcountry ethnos. They were eager to serve not because they hated the "Hun", nor to hang the Kaiser, nor to oppose putative Prussian militarism (forget about the British and French empires of coolies), nor because of lies of the British press about supposed German crimes in Belgium, nor because of the Lusitania (which was carrying munitions sold by a supposed neutral country, and the danger of sailing under a British flags was made known by the German Embassy), nor because of the lies of the Creel Bureau about the crimes of Goethe and Nietzsche, nor to "make the world safe for democracy", nor for "the war for righteousness", nor for the "war to end all wars", and CERTAINLY not for Anglophila and to save the House of Morgan (the real reasons for American intervention). We Borderer Backcountry folk fought simply because we like to fight. My father called in "Mountain Macho". Indeed, we Borderers Backcountrymen have done most of the fighting and dying in Gringoland's New England inspired wars, from King Williams War on the frontier to Iraq; all the while, New Englanders have sent THEIR sons to Ivy League universities. To be fair, Rev. Hagee's people are sending their sons to places like Bob Jones. By the way, the Dispensationalist frenzy is as New Englanderish as it comes. That the real engine that drives wars -- the real reason that men will march into the face of cannon and machine gun -- is not propaganda or "war aims", but because men like to fight (and women like men who fight for them) is one of Martin van Creveld's most insightful observations. Learn something about American ethnic groups other than those in the East Coast Strip (from the lower DC suburbs to Salem, MA, home of the witch hunts). Other ethnics are around other than East Anglia Puritans, Midland Quakers, and NY Dutch, however much these have tried to make America's history theirs writ large. Sent at: 2008 08 21