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Reader maintains that Arizona is so in America

Comments re article 43988 Big Al Owens standing on the corner in Winslow ArizonaStephen Slaubaugh writes:
Arizona, at least near America if not part of it,...

What?!! Am I misreading this statement? I grew up in Adair County and even though I can't sometimes remember what I was going to do five minutes later, I can remember being taught that Arizona is in fact part of the United States Of America! Has our educational system really deteriorated that much? I sure hope not!! By the way, I live in Arizona now! -Stephen Slaubaugh
Thanks. Are you sure? Wish someone had told us. For now, we'll take your word on it. The failure to know was not, however, the fault of the local educational system itself. It was, in fact, the result of being forced to wear lace up shoes at the time. If velcro, already invented, had been in general use in the United States in the 1940's and early 1950s, the writer of that line would probably have gotten a better grounding in geography. That is another story. Now I'll bet that somebody is going to tell me Hawaii and Florida are in America, too. Never been to Hawaii, but was in Florida once or twice after I was 37 and should have known better, and the experience was worse than Ignatius J. Reilly's trip to Baton Rouge. The world is changing so fast. But we never stop learning, do we? We'll study more on whereabouts. -Ed Waggener




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