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To: af_vet_rr

I certainly appreciate the distinction you are making and the historical context added from that time.

Clearly, from today’s perspective they don’t merit the term concentration camps if you view them against the ones we have been made aware of in Germany, Poland, the Soviet Union, Vietnam, Cambodia or most recently the Balkans.

I would never as you say “jump on” those who used the vocabulary of the day. In this case, the term is applied in the present tense with all the horrors between.

Thanks for the note and for your father’s service to our nation.


322 posted on 09/26/2007 9:18:29 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: romanesq
I certainly appreciate the distinction you are making and the historical context added from that time.

Thanks, it's one of those things everybody I've talked to (around half a dozen) who were alive back then likes about the show - they have all said that at some point, somebody on the show said something that they said felt like something they said or felt back then.

My father and one of his buddies was really afraid that they would sugarcoat the show and show only certain things.
325 posted on 09/26/2007 9:31:15 AM PDT by af_vet_rr
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