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Harold,
If you are going to make generalized statements like:
"I guess that my writings of historical
record about these men's public and written statements are a basis to
call me a bigot?" You must first must submit solid unquestionable evidence to prove
this statement. The UNDERLINED PHRASES ALL "BEG THE
QUESTION." You wouldn't get anywhere in any court in the
nation applying this defective logic.
The question is, "What proof do you have to show the world that your
published writings are historically accurate? Have you published a
well-researched book on "these men?" Does the book contain DETAILED
FOOTNOTES and a generous INDEX (in text book format), and is it taught at most
universities, and accepted by most associates and friends of "these men?
Do you have "public and written statements" from friends and associates "who
knew these men?" The chances of accumulating such
wide-scope data are virtually impossible.
I would simply NOT continue with other unsupported
generalized statements like: "Since when has
reporting the truth about someone been considered anything but
accurate." you must first must
submit solid unquestionable evidence to also prove this statement. If you
see a building on fire and yell to ten other people to call the police and fire
department, then your testimony as to what you saw and yelled at those ten
people will be easily proven; considered accurate.
Therefore, if you believe in your thoughts and ideas
strongly, first go see a copyright lawyer for one initial interview. Do
bring all your data and notes with you, but first type your thesis on one page
in no more than two paragraphs. Let the man read it and if you're not
satisfied with his response take it to the nearest University's History
Department. Ask to meet with the Professor's Assistant. Show him or
her your thesis, and ask if they would assign one or two MBA students to help
you complete the basic search of the existing literature on the statements you
claim "these men" made.
Blake
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 5:03
PM
Subject: Re: Truman and the Marines
I guess that my writings of historical record
about these men's public and written statements are a basis to call me a
bigot? Since when has reporting the truth about someone been considered
anything but accurate. Forced eugenics on the part of FDR, the refusal of the
relaxing of the immigration policies of this nation under FDR and Truman for
the displaced survivors of concentration camps, the refusal to recognize a
Jewish homeland until 1949, and a belated integration policy for this nation's
armed forces until late in Truman's term, does not equate into me being called
or labeled a bigot. And, I can at least sign my name to what I
write.
How does personal slurs address the historic
facts of these two men's record?
Harold Stockton
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 8:47
AM
Subject: Re: Truman and the
Marines
I guess you do see him Bigoted..takes one to
know one.
and you are an objective
historian?
D
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003
5:32 AM
Subject: Re: Truman and the
Marines
I have been amazed at how many people
have gotten so riled up over anything that Harry Truman might have said
about the Marines. Truman was an equal-opportunity bigot and smear-monger,
even to the point of being an anti-Semit. If one goes to: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3059087.stm, there is the report about how old Harry "described Jews as
"very, very selfish . . . They [the Jews] care not
how many Estonians, Latvians, Finns, Poles, Yugoslavs or Greeks get
murdered or mistreated as D[isplaced] P[ersons] as long as the Jews get
special treatment," he wrote in 1947.
"Yet when they have power, physical, financial or
political, neither Hitler nor Stalin has anything on them for cruelty or
mistreatment to the underdog.
"Put an underdog on top and it makes no difference
whether his name is Russian, Jewish, Negro, Management, Labor, Mormon,
Baptist, he goes haywire.
"I've found very, very few who remember their past
condition when prosperity comes."
All that can be attributed to Truman is that he
was an unabashed bigot, meteoric tempered, never forgave a slight, and
wroye down too many personal thoughts that were best kept unsaid. That
being said from a historian's perspective, I think that there has been far
too much time spent on this thread on what and why this smallish man said
about one of this country's armed services.
Though Truman was not the
onlt former president who was bigoted, FDR even had a plan for the forced
eugenics of the entire Japanese race with south-Pacific islanders to
"bread" out their militant tendencies. But thankfully, this country, and
the office of the presidency is larger than the petty foibles of a few
small men. I would hope that the readers and contributers to this thread
are made of the same stearner metal than to take some small slight as
grounds to take some off-hand remark as a personal offense.
Harold
Stockton
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