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Thread #69413 Message #1178939
Posted By: Gareth
05-May-04 - 07:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: Militarism & the US culture of violence
Subject: RE: BS: Militarism & the US culture of violence
Hmmm ! "Did you have a brother on the 'Rueben James'
About 4 feet away from this 'Puter is my wardrobe. In it is a US of A Coast Gaurd uniform jacket given to my Grandfather as survivors clothing after he was picked out of the North Atlantic in 1941 by a US of A nuetrality patrol vessel.
So please don't give me any of that crap.
I will also mention that he was also picked out of the water in 1939, by a German merchant ship heading into Norway, and released as a survivor. The basic converstion was "thank God we are heading into a neutral port"
My late grandmother kept up a post war correspondance with the Master of the german ship untill his death in the 1950's.
PQ17 did him, and it was a sailor's grave, as a merchant seaman.