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To: E Rocc

My father’s parents came from Germany and learned to speak English fluently. One major incentive that’s not mentioned here is that during WWI, it was ILLEGAL TO SPEAK GERMAN IN PUBLIC in many places. My great-grandfather was essentially under house arrest because his English was poor.


14 posted on 06/19/2007 10:13:32 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("By the simple exercise of our will, we can exert a power for good practically unbounded, etc, etc.")
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To: VanShuyten

So, you support the suspension of Civil Liberties (as happenned to German Americans during WWI) in order to get people to speak a language? Sieg Heil! ;-)


16 posted on 06/19/2007 12:03:22 PM PDT by Clemenza (Rudy Giuliani, like Pesto and Seattle, belongs in the scrap heap of '90s Culture)
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