FYI--Edward Snowden was born in Elizabeth City NC

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and lived there until he was 10. (Was looking up his background). Then moved to Maryland.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden

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1. What is the significance of that?

I know EC is wedged between Blackwater and the CIA paramilitary training base at Harvey Point, but what are you suggesting?

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3. I'm suggesting that he was born in NC

and spent his first ten years there. That is all. Interesting trivia for NClinians y'know?

(I also did the same many years ago, very near there. I know the neighborhood).

What are YOU suggesting? That as a kid he was interested in special forces & stuff because of Blackwater?--

I don't think I'm suggesting that they're raising recruits from birth quite yet.

If you took it that way, well pickle my trotters...

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2. Further, fwiw:

His mother, Wendy, a resident of Baltimore, Maryland, is the chief deputy clerk for administration and information technology at the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland.[12][10]

By 1999, Snowden had moved with his family to Ellicott City, Maryland, where he studied computing at Anne Arundel Community College[10] in order to gain the credits necessary to obtain a high school diploma, but he didn't complete the course[13] and later obtained his GED.[7][14]

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4. His father was a Coastie.

Large Coast Guard air station in Elizabeth City.

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5. That explains it

...so was my dad, a coastie who also did time in Baltimore.