On Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 2:11:03 PM UTC-10, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 5/1/2016 7:18 PM, dsi1 wrote:
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> > My father-in-law's mother in Montana would read accounts of Queen Liliuokalani's plight in the newspaper and weep. President McKinley's willingness to turn his back on the naive and trusting Hawaiians seemed to be an un-American thing to do.
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> A lot of un=American things were done years ago.

I'm guessing that America during those days after the Civil War and the opening of the West much have been seen in very optimistic, idealized, terms. I have no doubt that this did not sit well with a lot of Americans.