(1) And remember that Al Gore, a Tennessean, backed tax cuts last year.

(2) They volunteered to join Tennessean Andrew Jackson to defend the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, against the British army in the War of Eighteen Twelve.

(3) Consider David Peel, another white Tennessean whom Lexington met outside a hardware store in Millington.

(4) They volunteered to join Tennessean Andrew Jackson to defend the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, against the British army in the War of 1812.

(5) Al had his own staff, with fellow Tennessean Roy Neel as chief of staff.

(6) Last year, $1.34 million in tax refunds for Tennessee residents was returned to the Internal Revenue Service as undeliverable, according to Nashville newspaper The Tennessean.

(7) So perhaps it was fate that on this assignment, the first meal out on the town for this displaced Tennessean was Baghdad's version of a fish fry.