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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6861)	4/4/2002 8:27:56 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21057

it is largely dropped from our history books. I remember reading a collection of letters written by soldiers to their families back home. Mostly pretty miserable. The US military knew nothing about fighting in the tropics, and the casualties from dysentery, infected trench foot, and other health problems dwarfed those from combat. Some very nasty things were done there. I once spoke to an American high school history teacher who stoutly and vocally denied that the US ever had or could possibly have had a colony. If a promise like that will not be redeemed, it shouldn't be made. There were a lot of problems. In many cases good-faith efforts were made, but the lists were juggled terribly, often by local politicians out to get their own people benefits they didn't deserve. Tons of skullduggery on all sides. Fake guerilla groups were invented, real ones were knocked off the rolls because they were believed to lean left. A lot of deserving people got screwed, and a lot of undeserving ones did real well. Not such an uncommon story, I guess.