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Loyalty to petrified opinions never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul in this world—and never will.
—MARK TWAIN
“Fifty years ago as a child, I watched, on my small black-and-white TV, a somewhat fuzzy yet unsettling view of the definition of patriotism through the eyes of the Army-McCarthy hearings. A climate of fear and oppression was being fostered that did much to chill dissent. Fast-forward to today, my TV screen is much larger, the picture is clearer, but the view of patriotism perpetuated by our government is still just as narrow. At that moment many years ago, when Joseph Welch of Hale and Dorr confronted Senator McCarthy with that memorable phrase ‘Have you no decency?’ he became my hero…. Thus began my educational ...
