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echo: askacop
to: RICH WILLBANKS
from: RD THOMPSON
date: 1998-01-23 19:18:00
subject: Re: Censorship

Hi Rich, as you were just saying about Re: Censorship....
RW> RW> the ship with gun fire.  128 Americans were killed.
RW> RW> The incident was used as an example of the barbarism of
RW> RW> the Germans and was cited as one of the reasons why the
RW> RW> US should break its neutrality.
RW> 
RW> CC> Does anybody know why the Americans were in a war zone that
RW> CC> America was not involved with in the first place?  Sorry,
RW> CC> I'm still trying to learn and there are a few  pieces of the
RW> CC> puzzle missing.
RW> 
RW> They were paying passengers on board.  There was still
RW> passenger liners running at that time.
Plus, at the time, the US was not a current participant in the
threatened hostilities. 
RD 
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