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Virginia
Home for Ten Years
I lived here in Arlington, Virginia for over seven years.

Before Arlington I shared a condo with some friends in Annandale, Virginia in Fairfax County. Back then Annandale was "country-ish" but the suburbs of the District of Columbia sprawled. I decided to move in closer to the city for work. I could not afford to buy any property there in Virginia. From summer of 1995 through 1999 (with a break of one year after the Johnson & Higgins ordeal) I attended George Mason University School of Management in Fairfax to earn my Master of Business Administration degree. I maintained a full-time course load while I worked full-time. That was my second crucible (after Johns Hopkins). George Mason is a great school, known more for graduate training in law, education, and nursing than business. But the business school is top knotch, and I enjoyed tutelage of world-class professors and business professionals.

Yorktown I studied Law at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia.

The College of William and Mary is the oldest university in The United States! Presidents Thomas Jefferson and John Tyler attended here. Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-1835) John Marshall also attended here. Marshall penned the opinion in Marbury v. Madison, adapting common law practices to give the Court latitude and authority to censure or curtail Constitutional infractions by Congress or The Executive. This assured the triad of government: Executive-Legislature-Judiciary.

After class I often motorcycled along the shores of the York River near its convergence with the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean - at Yorktown, the site of Britain's capitulation to The United States rebel army. On October 19, 1781, the American War of Independence from Great Britain ended when British General Charles Cornwallis, weary of the siege by French and American forces, surrendered to the American Army. The Treaty of Paris, by which Great Britain formally recognized the independence of the American Colonies, was signed in 1783.

A nearby inscription:
1781 - THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED TO THE SAILORS AND SOLDIERS OF THE FRENCH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WHO DIED FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF THE UNITED STATES DURING THE CAMPAIGN OF YORKTOWN

Many Americans have forgotten the pivotal role the French played in the War of Independence. Without the French, there might not be a United States of America!

THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA
Sic semper tyrannis
Thus always to tyrants!

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