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Blue_true

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12. You keep posting "official" military history. Like they don't have something to hide.

Reply to RHMerriman (Reply #11)

Tue Jun 25, 2019, 05:12 PM

Jun 2019

No thanks, as I have tried to explain to you a couple of times, I will take the accounts of now deceased people that LIVED the experiences that they spoke about.

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Words of Franklin D. Roosevelt [View all] Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2019 OP

A great individual, and a great president... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #1

Well, unless you were a Japanese American.... MichMan Jun 2019 #2

Or African-American, or Italian-American, or a homosexual in the Navy in WW I... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #3

For African Americans in particular, the New Deal was a big fat nothing, even worse. Blue_true Jun 2019 #4

Um, yes and no... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #5

I knew Black people that served in the military in Europe during WWII. Blue_true Jun 2019 #6

Nothing was "rosy" about segregation of the US armed forces in WW 2, and there's nothing RHMerriman Jun 2019 #7

I will stay with recollections that I heard from old men and women as a child. Blue_true Jun 2019 #8

Anecdote is not evidence, and women, of course, did not serve in combat in the US forces during WW 2 RHMerriman Jun 2019 #9

Mail and supply details that were poorly guarded. Blue_true Jun 2019 #10

Mail and supply details guarded by who? RHMerriman Jun 2019 #11

You keep posting "official" military history. Like they don't have something to hide. Blue_true Jun 2019 #12

You keep posting zero details or content... RHMerriman Jun 2019 #13