"But freedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order."
-- U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson (in West Virginia Board of Education vs. Barnette, flag salute, 1943
The first thing you have to know before you read what follows here is that I am the son of an immigrant who came here from Lithuania in 1888 and enlisted in the Army in 1917 on the day we entered World War I.