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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163299)	4/10/2006 11:08:56 PM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

Yes...very true. Wonder how close to the Straits our war ships are?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (163299)	4/11/2006 12:14:02 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794009

Hey, Mq. You have a couple of Academics that need a switch taken to them. Tearing down the heros By TigerHawk at 4/10/2006 05:15:00 PM A couple of Kiwi academics are tearing down one of New Zealand's great heros: A ruse that helped to win a soldier the Victoria Cross during the Second World War was a "war crime" and New Zealand should apologise to the families of the snipers he killed, it was claimed yesterday. Alfred Clive Hulme, the father of Denny Hulme, the late world motor racing champion, was awarded the VC for bravery in killing 33 German snipers over eight days during the Battle of Crete in 1941. He returned home a hero to the town of Nelson. But a new book by two military historians says that, in winning his VC, Sgt Hulme committed "acts of perfidy" under international law. What are these unforgivable acts of "perfidy" that "should" move New Zealand to apologize to the families of German snipers? Sgt. Hulme "donned a German paratrooper's smock," pretended to be one of them, and shot three of them in cold blood. The Western academy is so morally confused that it is finding ways to condemn its national heroes 60 years after the fact. Our fetish for legalisms in war is now such that the leading lights of our great universities actually believe New Zealand should apologize for a hero who saved countless Allied soldiers by killing German snipers who themselves were in Crete illegally. So, should the North Vietnamese apologize to the families of the American, Australian, Canadian and French soldiers killed by the Viet Cong? Should Australians apologize to various Afrikaaners, or maybe South Africans in general, for the tactics of the Bushveldt Carbineers. Or is no apology necessary, because the British executed Harry Morant and his comrades? Or perhaps it is South Africa that should apologize to Australian families on behalf of the Boers who wore no uniform, or "donned" British khaki, when they shot and killed colonial soldiers. Meanwhile, Islamic jihadists, without benefit of uniform, slaughter innocent civilians around the world. No national government has issued an apology, and no Western university professor has even thought to demand one. tigerhawk.blogspot.com