To: haqihana who wrote (97762 ) 12/2/2000 1:15:06 AM From: Neocon Read Replies (1) | Respond to It is absolutely true that I am a city boy. I grew up on either side of the District line, never more than 4 miles from it, mostly in the contiguous suburbs. As a child, I would picnic by the Tidal Basin, looking across to the Jefferson Memorial; visit the old Air and Space museum, with its booster rockets and the Spirit of St. Louis; hunt through the Natural History Museum for dinosaurs and gemstones; tour the FBI building or the Mint or the White House; go to the Navy Yard to walk through a diesel submarine; walk through downtown to view the Christmas windows in the big department stores; sit on the Watergate steps, by the Potomac, to listen to the Navy Band, playing by the Lincoln Memorial during intermission; and in other ways take advantage of living in the capital of the greatest nation on Earth. I have a hard time understanding the antipathy to cities, at least if one is affluent enough to be insulated from many of the problems, which is one reason I enjoy exploring this divergence with you. I know you are not a rube, and have lived elsewhere, and yet you have never picked up the taste for cities. I happen to think that is literally because you have no use for them, such as would motivate you to endure some of the discomforts.
