Wales forever!

For A Change, April-May, 2005 by Paul Williams

St David's Day is celebrated by Welsh people the world over. Last year President Bush sent a message of goodwill, highlighting Wales's 'innumerable contributions to America's history'. Eleven US presidents came of Welsh ancestry, he continued, and so did 16 of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence. 'American education owes a debt to the Welsh founders of Harvard and Yale Universities; American arts to Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Sinclair Lewis and WD Griffith.' A stone on the stairway to the Washington Monument is inscribed, 'Cymru am byth!--Wales Forever!'

PAUL WILLIAMS IN WALES

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