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01-10-2008, 09:43 PM
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You're Top Poster: #3   | The mighty $ has finally spoken.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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03-10-2008, 03:09 AM
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You're Top Poster: #2 | It had to happen. Bar stewards. It's funny, amazing how much of our history and culture is affected by Hollywood...and yet the greater public keep coming back for more. We must be "entertained".
__________________ http://www.454-459squadrons.org.au/. http://www.awm.gov.au/index.asp  Aircraft from No. 60 Squadron levelling out for the "run in" to make a mast-head attack on a Japanese coaster off Akyab. Courtesy AWM. |
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03-10-2008, 04:06 AM
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You're Top Poster: #3 | Can you imagine if they did a remake of Huck Finn? There is 186 instances of Nigger in that. I still see it as altering history. Surely society is educated sufficiently to know that this was in the past and that it was predominantly a racist society.
__________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm |
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03-10-2008, 06:47 PM
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| Άρης  Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Terra something or other
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And there will always be some who will use it as ammunition for their own political games. Though I am disappointed that the name has been changed (something I always thought would happen), I would rather that than change any of the major historical facts. I do NOT want a whitewash like Valkyrie.
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