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To: 68 grunt
Well you're certainly entitled to your feelings. Sometimes I feel the same as you do, so I know where you're coming from.

I believe a lot of people felt the same about the Japanese (and the Germans) in WWII. And a lot of people felt the same about the American Indians from the 1600's to the 1900's. And all the religious wars in Europe certainly brought out the strongest feelings. Most all those hard feelings have now blown over, and we live in peace with all those groups. I hope that one day (maybe soon, or maybe in hundreds of years) we'll also feel the same about the Muslim world.
178 posted on 05/12/2004 2:26:46 PM PDT by 68skylark (.)
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To: 68skylark
Kind of reminds me of the Alamo. Oddly enough some of the DEFENDERS at the Alamo were Hispanic. There were quite a few Hispanics in the army that defeated Santa Anna.

One Hispanic officer in that army became one of Texas's first U.S. Senators or Congressmen, I can't remember which. Eventually he ended up migrating to Mexico to get away from the mistreatment and death threats. Seems the rising anti-Mexican sentiment in Texas including those Hispanics who had honorably fought and died to win freedom for Texas. Oddly enough, they did get to enjoy those freedoms.

Our most decorated unit in Europe during WWII was an all Japanese American unit, volunteers to the man even though many of them had family in the camps. Highly decorated and often spit at and called Japs by their fellow countrymen.

It's easy to get caught up in the emotion of the event, it's more difficult to separate the emotion from the reality.

184 posted on 05/12/2004 2:34:37 PM PDT by CWOJackson
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