Terminus! So great to hear from you. Once again you demonstrate the legendary sartorial style that has made your international reputation. Thank you for taking time from your very busy work schedule and crowded social life to participate in this discussion. Have an AWESOME day.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Sardaukar<br/>
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While not USian or expert in law, that law seemed to be bit poorly made. Maybe someone will come up with better one. <br/>
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Still, decision is encouraging all sorts of frauds to advance themselves. <br/>

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I personally don't have a problem with the decision. Medal or no, you can't steal valor from anyone. The law was not necessary.

Agree with that entirely.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AW1Steve<br/>
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I won't accuse you of theft. But what ever "brilliant" arguments you make , some of us will balance them against what we suspect of your character. But I'll admit freely that I'm more than a little disappointed in you. I'm sure your not the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AW1Steve<br/>
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mdiehl, you've been on this forum as long as I've been visiting. But something was said the other day that stuns, dismays and appalled me. Do I understand correctly that you've never played this game? Indeed , that you've never even bought it ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AW1Steve<br/>
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mdiehl, you've been on this forum as long as I've been visiting. But something was said the other day that stuns, dismays and appalled me. Do I understand correctly that you've never played this game? <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: LoBaron<br/>
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In this case I retract my comment and apologise.<br/>
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It did indeed look as you were trying to contradict a purposely chosen part of my post,<br/>
I might have overreacted.<br/>
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But please note that your response and quote ...

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This forum has an easy to track structure.<br/>
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You can chose to reply to a specific post by hitting the reply button on that specific post. In the bottom right corner you then see the<br/>
original poster in parenthesis, for example ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>to the preponderance of Irish and Scottish immigrants<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Or to their distilled beverages. [;)]<br/>
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After all, Tennessee and Kentucky are famous for their libations.<br/>
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Maine... well... we have lobster.<br/>
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No one will ...

Are you ****ing serious, mdiehl?

Is this a rhetorical question?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Your habit of quoting part of another persons post, removing the originator from the quote, and then repeating the rest of the post as if you would present new information is one of the reasons I dislike you mdiehl. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I was not aware that I had ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>True, information is lost over time. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Well, yes, but information is also gained, in a sense, over time, at least in the short run.<br/>
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Consider Samuel Eliot Morrison's stuff. Most of it was researched from 1944 through 1950 by a huge ...

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How did the U.S. Pacific Fleet's fighting squadrons fare in the first six months of the war? From 1 February to 4 June, USN fighter pilots shot down 74 Japanese aircraft.... Yet in direct confrontations between the two fighters, fifteen Zeros succumbed as opposed ...

Good books have primary sources I agree. But proximity to events is not worth much, IMO. Consider "My Life on the Plains" by George Custer.

Sure but that is why historians write books and not just Haiku !!!

[:D]

03 - Answer the questions (while being true to the sources)

Corollary: Often the answers are complex and not easily distilled into simple generalizations.

Yes, Millenium Edition "home basic" (a mistake not to be made again).
I will download it then and see if I can get it to run.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>You should. There's many primary reeferences and over 20 secondary references that say same thing. If you are as smart as you say you are you may read some of them sometime? Yes?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Depends. If it's a primary reference in Japanese I won't be able ...

proud southerners like to kid northerners

We from the North do not have a sense of humour that we are aware of.