GregSY, I respect your sentiments but I've let that stuff go. It doesn't work for me. Canada, America and a lot of countries have been complicit in brutish empire-building and now are together in conflict with Islamic fundamentalism.

I welcome the talent and commitment of good men and women wherever I find them and don't visit on them the sins of their fathers and grandfathers. I don't think those Old World craftsmen and their descendants in Meriden would either.