Geez, I said to each his own.
I'm not blowing anything out of proportions, I just disagree and showed why.
Statue of Liberty reopens today after $30 million interior renovation
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I'm not blowing anything out of proportions, I just disagree and showed why.
Yep, and it's still funny that people like to idolize statues.
But then to me, the idea that some Americans think that France has betrayed the USA is just as irrelevant. lol
Meh, I think the message she sends is the better part of what's important.
That's fine, but it's still just a small part of how different the two nations are today, compared to 1886.
Isn't the message always more important than the messenger? lol That's why I think that it's funny how much importance people put on the statue. Makes me wonder just how many Americans actually know what the tablet there says or even the name of the poet that wrote
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Not like
the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand
Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command
The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.
"Keep, ancient lands, your storied pomp!" cries she
With silent lips. "Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"
Or even that it is a poem. lol
Indicating its irrelevance. Thanks.
If the message is infrastructure then it isn't important and the messenger is more important? What?
Not really. I'm just playing.