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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m sure she wasn’t. It was a horrible, dangerous war. Still, I can imagine that if I had been your grandmother, I would probably have felt betrayed. From what I know, my grandparents weren’t subjected to that kind of attention, even though my paternal grandfather was German.


122 posted on 02/23/2014 4:09:30 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

He was first generation? Germans make up the largest cohort of all ethnic groups in the United States. Look at the names of our WWII leaders: Eisenhower, Nimitz, Spruance, King, Marshall, Halsey, Spaatz, etc...


124 posted on 02/23/2014 4:16:25 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: trisham
No, she didn't feel betrayed in the least. Things were very different back then. She knew that Hoover was trying to keep the country safe from Axis and Communist subversives and spies.
125 posted on 02/23/2014 4:18:18 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Sarah Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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