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To: BroJoeK; DiogenesLamp
Pearl Harbor is the proximate cause of US entry into WWII. The same logic applies to Fort Sumter.

Rationalizing Fort Sumter = Pearl Harbor in your mind, STILL??

That the Southern defenders of THEIR soil = Japs who bombed AMERICAN soil? REALLY??

(2) Northern casualties vs. 2,000? Have you SEEN film of the damage at Pearl?? Read THE history?

Your analytic analogous "logic" remains a stunning curiosity -- in faaaar off in a distant Universe.

765 posted on 07/23/2016 8:31:36 AM PDT by HangUpNow
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To: HangUpNow; rockrr
HangUpNow: "That the Southern defenders of THEIR soil = Japs who bombed AMERICAN soil? REALLY??"

Just as the US base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba remains US despite the Communist Cubans claims it now belongs to them, so Fort Sumter, and other such forts, remained Union property regardless of what secessionists claimed.

So, when Confederates attacked Union troops in Union Fort Sumter it was the exact equivalent of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

That's a fact.

HangUpNow: "2) Northern casualties vs. 2,000?
Have you SEEN film of the damage at Pearl??
Read THE history?"

Sorry if you can't do math, but here it is: Fort Sumter Union casualties were 7% (6 of 85) roughly the same as Pearl Harbor casualties (3,500 of 50,000+ US forces in Hawaii).

HangUpNow: "Your analytic analogous "logic" remains a stunning curiosity -- in faaaar off in a distant Universe."

No, it's just facts of history are stubborn things, even more stubborn than your typical pro-Confederate lies.

787 posted on 07/23/2016 4:24:15 PM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective...)
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