On 1/2/2019 8:32 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:18:14 -0800 (PST), wrote:

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 7:46:39 PM UTC-8, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jan 2019 17:46:43 -0800 (PST), jbeattie
wrote:

On Tuesday, January 1, 2019 at 5:19:06 PM UTC-8, Ralph Barone wrote:
Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 1/1/2019 2:30 PM, wrote:

Jay, it is always pleasant to know to exactly what lengths you and other
leftists are willing to go to attacking even the least man in Trump's administration.

I would like to ask you quite plainly - do you really believe that this
is not going to rebound on you? That the same tactics that you've been
willing to use will not in turn be used upon you? Or are you still
filled with pride with getting away without punishment for locking
114,000 Americans of Japanese descent into concentration camps while we
had Americans in Europe fighting Germans in part because they were
locking Jews into concentration camps?

Jay, I have to take Tom's side on that point. If it really was you who
locked 114,000 Americans of Japanese descent into concentration camps -
well, shame on you!


On the other hand, you've really got to applaud his productivity.

Well thank you! People just don't understand how HARD it is to get 114,000 Americans of Japanese descent into concentration camps. I was exhausted before I was even born. Nobody had ever done it before. It was huge, and it will be many, many years before anybody does it again. Probably never because it was so huge. And you know, I talk to my Japanese friends and even they say, "Jay, you did such an awesome and good job. A hugely awesome good job like nobody had done before!"

-- @therealJayBeattie.

I'm sure that you must have also had a hand in the recruiting of the
44th Infantry Regiment which was made up of Japanese-Americans and was
the most decorated regiment in the history of the U.S. Army.

cheers,

John B.

Do you mean the segregated American regiment. Sort of like some 700,000 black Americans whose efforts in the war did everything from breaking the Battle of the Bulge to saving bridges all over France so that the tankers could cross. And the American military didn't even recognize them. It wasn't until Eisenhower got in until the service was desegregated. Of course this segregation has been blamed on the Republicans ever since.

Segregated regiment? So what? They received the highest number of
decorations in the history of the U.S. Army.

But Black Americans... the first "Afro-Americans" in the military
joined up in the 1700's. "research concludes there were about 9000
black Patriot soldiers, counting the Continental Army and Navy, and
state militia units..."

From about 1863 until the early 20th century there were the 9th and
10th cavalry and the 24th and 25th infantry regiments which were
Black.

To add a little bicycle content, the first U.S. "Bicycle Soldiers"
were members of the 25th Infantry, a Black unit.

See "Buffalo Soldiers."
https://www.history.com/topics/westw...ffalo-soldiers

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Soldier

--
- Frank Krygowski