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From: bitmap@ucbtopaz.CC.Berkeley.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: re: Re: Unarmed forces
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Date: Fri, 6-Apr-84 04:18:33 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr  6 04:18:33 1984
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>>the U.S. has not been invaded AT ALL for a hundred years 
>>or so.

>Say what?  Now (1984-1941) >= 100?  I know, I'm being picky...

I'll be picky, too.  Aside from Poncho Villa in the early 1900s,
I can't think of a time when the United States have been invaded
since, say, 1814.  True, the territory of Hawaii was attacked in
1941, and I think that some of the Aleutian islands of the Alaska
territory were even taken over (anyone know?).  The Mexican War
was fought, I think, entirely in Mexico (I could be wrong on this).
It was, I think, ~1848.  Am I missing an invasion?  (I'm not
counting such things as Gettysburg, although one could argue that).

Sam Hall, UCB
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