Paul-- I reviewed the PBS interview on Gallagher's book briefly in this
forum several weeks ago. Gallagher's conclusions are in many cases
faulty, as you say, but with the particular Time Magazine article a few
days ago, I wanted to draw attention to the particular statement:
"The United States is metric, or at least more metric than most of us
realize."
This is, in my opinion, the most important point for our USMA approach at
the present time: to make it clear that we are already 50% metric and we
are on an inevitable course, both legally and in practice, toward 100%.
Opponents would have the world believe that the U.S. is still completely
unmetricated and anti-metric. In fact, we are not that much different
from Canada or Britain, for example, and these two countries are never
categorized as "non metric" in the press.
Martin Morrison
"USMA Today" Columnist
