[78-L] O Maryland, My Christmas Tree

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "David Lennick" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
> Wasn't it a close vote between English and German to be the official 
> language of the US at one point?
>
Quite possibly?! Where I grew up, in central Illinois, there were 
German-language
churches...even German-language newspapers. Of course, this all ended 
abruptly
after the US entered WWI in 1917 (probably to the dismay of many elderly
German speakers...?!)

Steven C. Barr