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Latin America

Judi Lynn

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7. Same here. Do you remember when "The Ugly American" was published?

Reply to Easterncedar (Reply #6)

Fri Feb 9, 2024, 03:54 PM

Feb 2024

We thought we had all made a breakthrough, in reading about it.

Little did we know, Washington had been behaving like that a long time already! The difference was, no one knew!

Here's hoping someday we're going to get far more light on the history of what Washington and the military actually did to the Native people. More light, not less, like the Trumperfolk demand.

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Same here. Do you remember when "The Ugly American" was published? Judi Lynn Feb 2024 #7

Yes. Here's hoping. Easterncedar Feb 2024 #8