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ROAD TRIP: A BBM Game
MaineWriter:
Lost Cabin, WY
I wonder if it is anywhere near the lost weekend? LOL
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nakymaton:
Nojack, Alberta
:'(
Ellemeno:
Kenedy (sic), TX
Home to Camp Kenedy, a German-American and German-Latin American internment camp during World War II.
Following are excerpts from "Roosevelt's Wrong Enemies," by Andy Lindstrom (For the complete article, click here http://www.rinr.fsu.edu/summer2004/enemies.html .)
"More than 4,000 Latin Americans of German heritage—the vast majority of them with no apparent connection to Adolf Hitler's National Socialism or its rabid anti-Jewish ranting (and most of them men whose families were sent to separate internment camps)— ended up behind barbed-wire fences in a desert Texas internment camp. A few were later released after agreeing to return to Germany; others stayed until U.S. courts finally ordered them freed, in some cases as late as 1947, two years after World War II ended.
“Now, when I read about Guantanamo (the American military prison in Cuba where uncharged Afghan detainees are being held indefinitely and without legal recourse or representation), and I hear about the revival of racial profiling, I hear echoes,” he said during a recent interview. “And I worry that we may be repeating some of the same mistakes.”
German deportees from Latin America arrive at Camp Kenedy, Texas in 1942
welliwont:
Youngstown, AB
MaineWriter:
North Rock Springs, WY
Leslie
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