Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/15

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Apology
From: Ernest Nitka <enitka@twcny.rr.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:46:29 -0400

2 wrongs don't make a right.
Japan's heinous behavior during WWII should not give anyone the right 
to use racial slurs - at that point you begin to lower yourself ever so 
close to your enemy's level.

ernie
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 10:08 AM, Don R. wrote:

> Did the Japs ever apologize for their cowardly sneak  attack on Pearl 
> Harbor
> killing 2,500 Americans or torturing to death thousands more Americans 
> in
> the death camps?  Of course not.
>
> Do the Japs have any respect for Yankees (Americans)?  No, because the 
> Japs
> consider anyone who surrenders a sub-human and thousands upon 
> thousands of
> Americans surrendered and were summarily butchered.
>
> The Japs favorite sport was shooting to death every American aviator 
> who
> bailed out of his plane while he was helplessly dangling in his 
> parachute.
>
> Let's put things in their proper perspective rather than in their 
> "political
> correctness" and stop this "political correctness" nonsense.
>
> Don R.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chandos Michael Brown" <cmbrow@wm.edu>
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 8:44 AM
> Subject: RE: [Leica] Apology
>
>
>> Hey, Kurt, I don't think that you're fully a Lugger until you've
>> apologized at least once for saying something boneheaded.  Don't sweat
>> it.
>>
>> Chandos
>>
>> Chandos Michael Brown
>> History and American Studies
>> College of William and Mary
>> www.wm.edu/cas/asp/faculty/brown
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
>> [mailto:owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us] On Behalf Of khmiska
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2003 12:30 PM
>> To: LUG
>> Subject: [Leica] Apology
>>
>> I'm apologize for my remark about the Japanese.
>> Kurt
>> -- 
>> Kurt H. Miska
>> GERMAN BUSINESS TRANSLATIONS
>> Ann Arbor, Michigan
>> khmiska@umich.edu
>> http://www-personal.umich.edu/~khmiska/
>>
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