From the Archive: We Are the Patriots by Gore Vidal

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/01-0
Published on Wednesday, August 1, 2012 by The Nation

From the Archive: We Are the Patriots

by Gore Vidal

CD editor's note: The following essay appeared in the June 2, 2003 edition of The Nation magazine, and we reprint it today following news that Gore Vidal died yesterday at the age of 86:Gore Vidal (1925-2012)

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