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To: Racehorse

Were the perspectives of Italian/German/Norwegian/Franco/Scottish/Irish...etc. Americans specifically taken into consideration?


4 posted on 09/23/2007 9:18:35 AM PDT by MSF BU
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To: MSF BU

The exclusion of the views and experiences of Jewish veterans with hay fever makes this series unwatchable and probably anti-Semitic, too!


24 posted on 09/23/2007 9:37:36 AM PDT by pabianice
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The Greeks had the Greek Battalion the ONLY US Battalion to ever fly the flag of another nation.

Unlike other nations, the remaining Greek forces actually were formed into a battalion which continued to fight the Axis powers.







This photo, taken in Camp Carson, Colorado in early 1943, pictures the first and only time a foreign flag was allowed to fly next to the American flag leading a United States Armed Forces group on American soil. Passing in review for President Franklin D. Roosevelt and General George C. Marshall, the soldiers were Greek-American and Greek Immigrants, many of whom were not yet American citizens.

The Greek Battalion was designated the 122nd in honor of 122 years of Greek independence from the ottoman empire.

History of the Greek Battalion


That said, I think the protests here are more about present day political victimology rather than acknowledging those who served with honor.

52 posted on 09/23/2007 11:49:26 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: MSF BU

What a silly question. They are not protected minorities. Gosh, I thought everyone understood the game!
susie


53 posted on 09/23/2007 11:50:42 AM PDT by brytlea (amnesty--an act of clemency by an authority by which pardon is granted esp. to a group of individual)
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