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Have you heard about the effort to ban Liefsdag, the day celebrating Lief Eriksson's "discovery" of the Westlands? Yep, apparently some of the youth of Vinland (no less :rolleyes:) think it celebrates the wanton raids, rapes, and disease the Ostmen brought to the "Native Westlanders". Leave it to Vinlanders to group "Westlanders" into a single nation (I'm far closer culturally and genealogically to the Ostman than I am the damned Yuni).

Normally I'd hardly care what a bunch of rye-munchers have to say, but this idiocy is infecting the youth here in the Bay Confederacy. Besides, though I'm a loyal member of the Pamunkayn Clan through my wife (and was a loyal Matapoenyn through mother before then) I'm more than conscious of my own Ostman blood (as witnessed by my son's blue eyes). I figure I have as much Ostman blood as anyone else in the Westlands.

And besides, were it not the Ostmen it'd be the Mahoumaten or the Franken or Zhongen or someone.

This irritate anyone else as much as it does me, or have I officially walked too far on life's trail?
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