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Skriven 2006-11-21 13:19:35 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 43003 av tim_richardso50@hotmail.com (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: JFK on Hitler
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21 Nov 06 13:26, Tim Richardson wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 TR> Joe Delahaye -> Ross Cassell wrote:
 >>> Lets look at a more recent war, the Korean one.. Who won that one?
 JD>> Nobody won that one, and it was a UN action.
 JD>>>>  BTW, I
 JD>>>> didnt know that you could impress somebody forcefully into
 JD>> serving <G>  >
 >>> Whatever Joe, you know darn well that this too was a major
 JD>> greviance as to w  > that war came about, something you thought was
 JD>> ok for the Royal Navy to imbi  > in. They were boarding our merchant
 JD>> ships, and "forcing" the captured sailor  > to serve the Royal Navy.
 JD>> They were 'pressed' into service, not 'impressed'.  Sorry you didnt
 JD>> see my little dig.

 TR> Lets see if I can put this in perspective, here;

Good luck! Joe has always had an English reading comprehension problem.

 TR> You're on a ship in the middle of the ocean. Along comes the British
 TR> Navy's Man o' War.......boards your vessel, starts tossing the cargo
 TR> overboard or confiscating whatever is useful, and then they turn to
 TR> *you*, and offer you the choice of `serving in `is Majesty's Navy'.


 TR> And........while you're `thinking' it over..........you notice the
 TR> British sailors are setting fire to the vessel *you* were just
 TR> serving aboard!


 TR> So.....lets summarize, shall we?


 TR> Vessel overtaken and stopped by a heavily armed British
 TR> ship.....cargo seized or tossed overboard.....ship
 TR> afire........offered choice to `serve `is Majesty'
 TR> or............gosh. Its `so' hard to decide!


 TR> So.......looked at in the proper light......"pressed" or "impressed"
 TR> really make little difference to someone faced with the choice of
 TR> `serving' or `swimming for it', do they?

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