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To: Shark38
None of these 1st generation Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as one people.

A great story from WWII:
A young Nisei (2nd generation Japanese) volunteers for the army. The skeptical recruiting sergeant asks "Are you willing to fight your own people?". The kid's eyes get as big as saucers, "Geez, are we going to have another Civil War?"

3 posted on 03/05/2009 9:13:46 AM PST by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: Oatka

“A great story from WWII:
A young Nisei (2nd generation Japanese) volunteers for the army. The skeptical recruiting sergeant asks “Are you willing to fight your own people?”. The kid’s eyes get as big as saucers, “Geez, are we going to have another Civil War?”


Love that.


8 posted on 03/05/2009 10:03:47 AM PST by ansel12 (Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
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