On Jul 3, 9:23*pm, mm wrote:
On Sat, 03 Jul 2010 18:05:55 -0700, Oren wrote:
Have a good day tomorrow.

"Subjects."

That's what Thomas Jefferson first wrote in an early draft of the

Old habits die hard? * And I guess we were subjects until they signed
it. * Well, for that to matter, I need to read the sentence, which
isn't found in later versions of the D of I, it says.

Declaration of Independence to describe the people of the 13 colonies.
"...Over the smudge, Jefferson then wrote the word "citizens."

"Dr. Fenella France, a research chemist at the Library of Congress,
shows recent imaging of the document. (Susan Walsh - AP)"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...10/07/02/AR201...

""It's almost like we can see him write 'subjects' and then quickly
decide that's not what he wanted to say at all, that he didn't even
want a record of it," she said. "Really, it sends chills down the
spine." "

I agree except I don't think she can know that he quickly decided it.

Worth reading the article, although they don't tell you how to repair
the machine used.

Thank God for Microsoft Word, I still remember using typewriters.