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To: KOREAN-WAR-L@raven.cc.ku.edu
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From: <SDonell73@aol.com>
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 20:44:58 EDT
Reply-To: KOREAN-WAR-L@listproc.cc.ku.edu
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In a message dated 8/3/02 1:07:16 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jbren1@optonline.net writes:

Some of the other words thrown back and forth: reb, yank, dogface, etc. haven't picked up really nasty meanings or have lost them if they did. How people understand what you say matters I think, not just what you mean to say.

Joe,

True. And feelings of people at the time that epithets are being thrown around come into play. On an occasion, calling soldiers dog faces, or Marines jar heads, or the term reb brings no reaction. On other occasions its the signal for a knock down drag out brawl.

Sandy

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