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From: brower@fortune.UUCP (Richard Brower)
Newsgroups: net.religion
Subject: Re: Charley Wingate's race hatred (con't)
Message-ID: <5261@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-May-85 17:18:38 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 17:18:38 1985
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In article <25249@lanl.ARPA> wkp@lanl.ARPA writes:
>     On the other hand, should we ask American Indians to come and lay
>     wreaths on the killers of their ancestors?

We do, every Memorial Day.

>     Then why doesn't Reagan go to Japan and lay a wreath on the
>     graves of those Japanese who attacked Pearl Harbor?

He should.

>     In what way do we honor modern Germany by honoring
>     the butchers of Oradour-sur-Glane?  (The French are really pleased
>     about that, I'm sure!)

He is honoring the other people in the graveyard, not the butchers.

>>Many people, including you apparently, seem to
>>want to blame the whole German people for the actions of WWII, but this
>>is just as wrong as the actions you comdemn.  German soldiers, not involved
>>in the death camps, deserve honor for being good soldiers just as dead
>>American soldiers do.  Not everybody can be a resistance hero.
>
>    Please don't put words in my mouth.  It's really unfair.  I do not
>    condemn the entire German people for the actions of the Nazis.  All
>    I ask is that another way be found to show our friendship with the
>    German people.  Like honoring the dead of Dresden, or Bonhoeffer, or
>    German civilians killed by American troops.

But you sprinkle terms like "German pigs" in several postings of yours
that I have seen.  This term is precisely the same type of term as
"Jewish pigs" is.

>    Why does the German government insist we show our friendship by
>    honoring the graves of mass murderers?

Think of him as honoring the principles of courage and bravery that
are shared by the majority of soldiers everywhere.  It will make you
feel better.

>	Must 40-year-old Jewish
>    graves be desecrated in order to rehabilitate Helmut Schmidt?

I didn't hear about this, who are they digging up?

>bill peter                          ihnp4!lanl!wkp

Richard A. Brower		Fortune Systems
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