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German volunteers and an American Hero
Posted by: Steve Cooper ()
Date: July 06, 2001 01:03AM

<HTML>In one of the interminable flame-trolls below, a question in the form of a rant called up a memory from early US history. The question was why did good men volunteer to serve a bad government.
The American hero was Stephen Decatur. As with too many of our heros, few Americans have ever heard of him. He was an officer at the earliest days of our navy, and among his positions, was Captain of the Enterprise. (Beam me up, Scotty.) He is best known for a toast;
\"Our country: In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be right; but our country, right or wrong.\"
The German U-boat men volunteered because they loved their country. They may or may not have agreed with their government, but it was their country regardless. Some were no doubt Nazis but I think that love of their home land was more important.</HTML>

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German volunteers and an American Hero Steve Cooper 07/06/2001 01:03AM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Walt 07/06/2001 09:19AM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Walt 07/06/2001 09:20AM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Steve 07/06/2001 02:08PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Walter M 07/06/2001 03:09PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Ray 07/06/2001 04:33PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Andrew H 07/10/2001 07:14PM
RE: Were the u-boat men volunteers? Antonio Veiga 07/06/2001 07:37PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Capt. George W. Duffy 07/07/2001 11:42PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Steve 07/08/2001 12:44AM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Capt. George W. Duffy 07/08/2001 03:22PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Craig McLean 07/08/2001 07:15PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Walter M 07/08/2001 09:28PM
RE: German volunteers and an American Hero Walt 07/09/2001 12:58AM


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