Sorry, Stoat. I missed this ping. Just FYI - pinged out the thread that was reposted today (by another FReeper).
awww...No worries! That's okay..I'm just very happy that more people will be able to learn about these important things who perhaps missed seeing this thread.
I see that a link to this thread was posted early on, so hopefully some of those people will make it over here and see at least some of these posts as well.
I've learned a lot from posters to this thread, and I wish that everyone could educate themselves on these issues. Many of the facts discussed here are almost completely excised from the modern 'history' books taught in academia.
There have been a number of posts from people who either had direct, personal experience in these matters or who had close relatives who did, and their posts are oftentimes so heart-wrenching that I have trouble responding to them and I just have to leave the computer for awhile. I hope that they don't think that I'm being rude if I don't respond.....there was so much suffering it's overwhelming to read about it sometimes.
Our nation and the rest of the world owes our Veterans such a monumental debt......