All Politics is Local -Reply

[James at]

Mike, good post.

If you will excuse a major tangent:

> (Col. Casey loved his scopes so much he was buried with one of
them).

I thought the story went that Casey's wife said to bury the microscope
with him because he loved it so much.  Somebody from the Smithsonian
talked her out of it, and the microscope is in the Coleoptera section of the
NMNH.  (Used by occasional visitors?) -:)

Jim

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