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To: nihil who wrote (57332)	10/6/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: E	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

I"m genuinely glad to know that there is an alternate source and partial explanation for an event Reagan construed as a personally witnessed event (or possibly as one he had seen in non-existent (of course!) film footage of that extreme and unscheduled real life moment) ("I remember the scene, it was very powerful"); but I do hope you realize that the significance of Reagan's telling this story was to support his notional assertion that segregation in the Armed Forces was then and there eliminated-- and that it was expressly NOT eliminated by Truman three years later. "Reporters pointed out that segregation persisted until Truman abolished it in 1948 three years after the war, but Reagan shook his head and said he did not believe them." It is possible that Reagan's confusion on this question of segregation arose from his propaganda duties during the war. From the same book: "Thus, though American troops were segregated-- even on the same troop ships, blacks and whites had separate quarters, including separate galleys-- filmmakers were instructed to present America as ethnically integrated. " So we may have, in your post the acorn from which Reagan grew the oak of his fabulation. I'm turning off the computer for a while to get some work done...!