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YSK:
I read at least part of the ad for the book, and I must admit
it distresses me. Moreover, with someone with Native American blood
(Yaqui) who's also lost a relative (and the only male in the family making me
the one to pass on the surname), I find the analogy to Native American massacres
and No Gun Ri kind of like a Nazi complaining about the Holocaust because he
finds it taking too long or something... Does the author joke? It's
certainly a sick joke, and if we weren't in America, I'd think the guy would be
in a concentration camp or something?!? On the other hand, I was even
thinking the other day about America's successful "final solution" as we don't
even have brown bears anymore here in California, but it's kind of dainty, ain't
it?!?
More on the subject involves a Korean vet I knew who was
Native American, an officer too, and I don't think he'd take kindly to the
analogy either. The whole matter distresses me, and I ask writers to
reconsider more: many Americans lost loves ones in Korea, and insensitivity to
them for sensationalism provides tempation, but does it help?
Vincent H. Bartning
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