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[thestarspangledman]

[Steve's been playing 'let's catch up on seventy years of history' again, slightly augmented by that trip to Risa. By which we mean, he got to experience technology in the future. But here he is, settled down with a pile of books and looking just a tad disconsolate.]

I know it's 2012. I really do. But even here, I -- feel like I'm gonna have to turn on a radio and wait for it to warm up. Or like I could pick up a newspaper and check the next time the Dodgers are gonna play down at Ebbets. Just -- it's enough to know that what we fought for was worth it, but I've been looking at the library again; and it's ....

Let's just say this isn't the future I expected. Kinda figured -- well, hoped -- we'd get over setting differences on people because of the color of their skin, or where they're from, or because of something they can't do a damn thing about. I guess it was too much to hope for, even seventy years later. Sometimes I think that everything's changed, then I realize some things haven't, and I -- don't know how to help it. Wish I could.

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[bob_fraser_rcmp]

So long as we do that, we'll get there.

[thestarspangledman]

Sooner or later, I suppose. I was just hoping there'd have been more progress.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

We've made a lot of it, though. The beginnings of a forum where all the leaders of the world have to answer to each other, sharing of new cultures and new forms of thought more easily than ever before, medicines that have save so many lives, more and more organisations travelling the edges of the world to help others out of the goodness of their and their sponsors' hearts, don't sell us short.

[thestarspangledman]

I don't mean to, at all, sir. It's just -- a lot to take in, and I've ....never really had time to.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

I've lived through most of them and sometimes even I forget.

[thestarspangledman]

Well, at least I have people who've lived through it to talk to, I guess.

[bob_fraser_rcmp]

If there's anything I like to do, it's talk, son.

[thestarspangledman]

[A little chuckle.]

I'll keep it in mind.