GAO Report: GA Security Threat

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 22:25:25 GMT, Robert Perkins
wrote:

This story has no basis in fact, at all.

I asked them what they studied of WWII. They said almost nothing.

Urp! Should have written: "They said, 'Almost nothing.'"

Rob

--
[You] don't make your kids P.C.-proof by keeping them
ignorant, you do it by helping them learn how to
educate themselves.

-- Orson Scott Card

Thomas Borchert wrote:

Rich,


Many Germans and
Japanese fought and killed Allied troops long after the war.



I am German. I am quite well educated in my country's history (I can
point at Iraq on a map, too). Your above statement is total BS.

How OLD a German are you? If you were born after about 1935, you don't
know as much as you think you know, having obtained your education in
your country's history following the imposition of laws restricting the
dissemination of information on the NSDAP.

I remember in the 1960s when the German scientists in my neighborhood
would greet new arrivals and tell them that they had to tell their kids
the truth about the National Socialists and recent German history,
because these subjects were covered to a far greater extent in
California schools than they had been in the German schools.

Ian,

If you were born after about 1935, you don't
know as much as you think you know, having obtained your education in
your country's history following the imposition of laws restricting the
dissemination of information on the NSDAP.


Yeah, right... Time for a reality check, my man.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Thomas Borchert wrote:
Ian,


If you were born after about 1935, you don't
know as much as you think you know, having obtained your education in
your country's history following the imposition of laws restricting the
dissemination of information on the NSDAP.



Yeah, right... Time for a reality check, my man.

Yes, Thomas, it is.

The war ended in 1945. The "De-Nazification" laws were imposed before
all of the Wehrmacht had demobilized, and that started between the death
of Hitler and the surrender by Doenitz, three days later -- which is why
trying him for "extending the war" was a real crock.

On 19 Nov 2003, you wrote in rec.aviation.ultralight:

You must be too young to remember when the Allies won WWII. Many
Germans and Japanese fought and killed Allied troops long after the
war.

That is simply a bald face lie.

--

"Dale Ward" wrote in message
.. .
On 19 Nov 2003, you wrote in rec.aviation.ultralight:

You must be too young to remember when the Allies won WWII. Many
Germans and Japanese fought and killed Allied troops long after the
war.

That is simply a bald face lie.

I could have sworn hearing my dad, who was serving in the Philippines at the
end of WWII, telling how some of the Japanese soldiers in the islands
refused to give up and continued to fight, even after the war was over and
Japan had surrendered.

Larry Smith wrote:

I could have sworn hearing my dad, who was serving in the Philippines at the
end of WWII, telling how some of the Japanese soldiers in the islands
refused to give up and continued to fight, even after the war was over and
Japan had surrendered.

There were some Japanese that were overrun on various islands that
refused to believe that the war was over and they lost. I believe the
last known one to come out was on Guam in the 1970's. The History
Channel did a show on it. They showed footage of a few of these guys
coming out. I don't think they ever shot anybody after the war though.