SPEAKOUT

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Monday, December 3, 1990

I'M CALLING IN regards to the person who was wanting to dress up and look like a cowboy, which he can do as far as I'm concerned, although I do think it looks too well. But I was wondering why these guys who dress up like cowboys keep their hat on when they're inside of a building. We were always taught, when you enter a building you're supposed to take your hat off. Most of these characters who dress up like a cowboy keep their hat on. He was also saying he dressed up like that because they were the ones who opened up this country. They're really not the ones that opened up this country; the people who opened up this country were the pilgrims that landed here. So, if he wants to dress up like the people that opened this country, he should dress up like a pilgrim. Thank you.

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