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67 Good Americans Organization, Circa 1952 Based on a photo in the Denver Public Library Archives. This meeting of the Good Americans Organization will now come to order. We have gathered here to calm your alarm. Look how civil we are how nicely we dress for you. No sombreros or native dress. Look! Here we have the American flag. We know who won the wars, who our grandparents signed the treaties with. We swear allegiance to your history and promise to make little trouble. We will stop with our confounding tongue. We will teach our children your language so that their children will never understand us. We will become the abuelitos who still speak the funny words yet pronounce their last names with such finesse. What we cannot do is make promises for the future, for the ones that come after us, or where their lingering hunger will lead them. ...

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