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To: jessduntno; Chief Engineer; Calpernia; STARWISE; maggief; LucyT

JDno one of these people should be able to give you the research links you ask about.

IIRC His grandparents attended “The Little Red” church on Mercer Island and were friends with known communists in HI.


5 posted on 06/14/2009 9:22:49 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Hey hey! Ho ho! Where's your Birth Certificate/ We've a right to know!)
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“His was an American character, one typical of men of his generation, men who embraced the notion of freedom and individualism and the open road without always knowing its price, and whose enthusiasms could as easily lead to the cowardice of McCarthyism as to the heroics of World War II.”

Thought the quote was interesting for its appraisal of “American Character”...kind of sounds like stupid, unaware, walking down the road idiots capable of awful things like...trying to root out communism?


9 posted on 06/14/2009 9:27:12 AM PDT by jessduntno (July 4th, 2009. Washington DC. Gadsden Flags. Be There.)
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