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I just visited the site of this camp on Friday. It seemed fitting to post about it at the same time that people (including people here) are seizing at the chance to say the same kinds of things about Muslims that were said about people of Japanese ancestry more than 70 years ago.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
Life in an American concentration camp
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Interesting picture PO2 Robert Aitchison. My father-in-law served time in a Cuban concentration/reeducation camp after one of what used to be his cows was slaughtered after the Cuban revolution turned all property over to Fidel's government.
My mother's family cared for a Slavic man who had been incarcerated at Treblinka concentration/extermination camp after he was freed at the end of WWII. I met him in the 1960s and he was very quite. his eyes looked as though he had seen far too much horror and he died from his beatings and torture a decade or so later.
It is interesting that the internment camps have been labeled concentration camps which is what the Nazi death camps were know as - the Russians and Germans slaughtered millions in concentration camps and gulags with the Russians adept at slaughtering many on the open terrain of mother Russia.
While our internment camps were very hard for those interned, I am thankful we did not go in for the wholesale slaughter of the Germans, Japanese and Russians during WWII.
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My mother's family cared for a Slavic man who had been incarcerated at Treblinka concentration/extermination camp after he was freed at the end of WWII. I met him in the 1960s and he was very quite. his eyes looked as though he had seen far too much horror and he died from his beatings and torture a decade or so later.
It is interesting that the internment camps have been labeled concentration camps which is what the Nazi death camps were know as - the Russians and Germans slaughtered millions in concentration camps and gulags with the Russians adept at slaughtering many on the open terrain of mother Russia.
While our internment camps were very hard for those interned, I am thankful we did not go in for the wholesale slaughter of the Germans, Japanese and Russians during WWII.
COL Mikel J. Burroughs LTC Stephen C. Capt Seid Waddell CW5 (Join to see) CW5 Charlie Poulton SGM David W. Carr LOM, DMSM MP SGT SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL SFC William Farrell SSgt Robert Marx SSG James J. Palmer IV aka "JP4" SSgt (Join to see) TSgt Joe C. SGT (Join to see) SGT John " Mac " McConnell SP5 Mark Kuzinski SGT Forrest Stewart SPC (Join to see) SrA Christopher Wright
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SSgt Robert Marx
The Nazi's perfected techniques of mass murder in their death camps plus concentration camps. The former were set up around huge gas ovens for incineration(such as Auswich) while the latter held huge populations in which some survived. Both sets of camps practiced deprivation of food & shelter to kill many and also practiced swift executions of certain groups along with terminally ill persons. The Nazi system was a huge affront against God & humanity. The American system was grossly unfair and practiced against people with no juris prudence or any ability to plea to the courts. The people were adequately fed, sheltered and provided with health care but this is no excuse to deny people the free exercise of their liberty.
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Capt Michael Greene
Yes, internment camps and concentration camps are way, way different things. The distinction between the two is important. It's vital to our future political policies that our leaders understand that.
It's important to know the truth. Few know of General Eisenhower's inhumane and deadly detention of millions of surrendered German soldiers. America's official policy was to punish Germans, especially the soldiers. SS members who surrendered were shot on sight. Given no shelter whatsoever, no blankets, and nearly no food or water. many prisoners starved to death. American GIs raped women prisoners and used some for target practice. Eisenhower gave them out as slave labor to France and Russia. Lest we forget, we are capable of anything.
It's important to know the truth. Few know of General Eisenhower's inhumane and deadly detention of millions of surrendered German soldiers. America's official policy was to punish Germans, especially the soldiers. SS members who surrendered were shot on sight. Given no shelter whatsoever, no blankets, and nearly no food or water. many prisoners starved to death. American GIs raped women prisoners and used some for target practice. Eisenhower gave them out as slave labor to France and Russia. Lest we forget, we are capable of anything.
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And both have attacked our people and military. Pearl Harbor and 9/11. As to your picture, here is more American Concentration Camps of citizens picking in the fields.
http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/228/farmers-without-land-the-plight-of-white-tenant-farmers-and-sharecroppers
http://mshistorynow.mdah.state.ms.us/articles/228/farmers-without-land-the-plight-of-white-tenant-farmers-and-sharecroppers
Farmers Without Land: The Plight of White Tenant Farmers andSharecroppers | Mississippi History...
Cotton picker in Lauderdale County. 1930s Farm Security Administration photograph. Courtesy, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
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MCPO Roger Collins - Cute. Once again, you are completely wrong about the issue at hand. I also think insulting someone's service does nothing to further your own positions.
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MCPO Roger Collins
PO1 (Join to see) - Then don't try to make assumptions that indicate you are a twit. If you and your buddy are no better at reading comprehension than your responses reflect, much can be inferred.
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MCPO Roger Collins - Is the problem here that you don't remember the things you say (type), or that you don't fully comprehend the meanings of the words you use and things you infer? But, you could just answer the original question: "Are you suggesting we intern all the Muslims in America?"
I would hope that you are not suggesting that, but from your response and refusal to answer, that is what is inferred.
Then you post pictures of sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Are you trying to make the connection that sharecroppers/tenant farmers were housed in concentration/internment camps? Or the Japanese internees didn't have it so bad because there were poor farmers?
I would hope that you are not suggesting that, but from your response and refusal to answer, that is what is inferred.
Then you post pictures of sharecroppers and tenant farmers. Are you trying to make the connection that sharecroppers/tenant farmers were housed in concentration/internment camps? Or the Japanese internees didn't have it so bad because there were poor farmers?
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Yes, a concentration camp set up by a democrat stalwart, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I bet you got all tingly trying to insinuate that someone on the right is suggesting concentration camps for muslims so you can get your leftist feeling all enraged. The problem is it is the leftists that gave you the Japanese internment camps. The left used the word "concentration" to try to make the link to the camps in Nazi Germany. While we all would agree internment was wrong, these were not German style concentration camps.
This is a juvenile grope at trying to tie the right to "potential" internment camps for muslims which no one has suggested, not even the evil DJT. What a lame, lame post.
I grew up in Japan and went back during my time in the Marines. I have nothing but respect for their culture and their post World War II efforts to re-enter the world as a trusted friend and ally.
This is a juvenile grope at trying to tie the right to "potential" internment camps for muslims which no one has suggested, not even the evil DJT. What a lame, lame post.
I grew up in Japan and went back during my time in the Marines. I have nothing but respect for their culture and their post World War II efforts to re-enter the world as a trusted friend and ally.
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PO2 Robert Aitchison
I wasn't talking about potential internment/concentration camps for muslims I was talking about how people today will readily try to blame all muslims (including natural born American citizens) for the actions of terrorists and it's no different in that regard to those who blamed all people of Japanese ancestry (including natural born American citizens) for the actions of the Japanese Empire.
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