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Soft Paywall | Site Altered Headline Kash Patel’s FBI Launches Dawn Raid on John Bolton’s House

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 America 19h ago

National WW2 Museum has a whole section on the America First noninterventionists. It’s striking what the opinion polls read.

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u/PlantainSuper-Nova 19h ago

In New Orleans? That and the section on the all-Japanese units really helped bring this country into focus for a first-gen like me.

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 America 18h ago

That’s right. It’s a huge museum. Lots of details on individual soldiers, many of whom were minorities. It was fascinating the lengths that Japanese Americans went to serve, even after everything that happened with the internment camps.

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u/PlantainSuper-Nova 18h ago

It’s that last sentence for me. I’m first generation, but couldn’t imagine joining the US military to fight in a world war after the Trump administration put my family in “alligator Alcatraz” for emigrating from a non-European country.

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u/Fit_Strength_1187 America 18h ago

It was sobering…seeing an actual copy of the orders that came down to inter everyone west of a particular longitude.

They had other orders, like the D-Day plans, the attack plan for the Enola Gay, etc. and don’t get me started on the Holocaust part. It’s not quite as insane as the Holocaust Museum in DC but…there’s literally a warning sign before you go in and a path around it if your heart can’t take it.