ADS-L Digest - 3 Sep 2014 to 4 Sep 2014 (#2014-75)

[Amy West]

On 9/5/14, 12:00 AM, ADS-L automatic digest system wrote:
> Date:    Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:58:53 +0800
> From:    W Brewer<brewerwa at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: America's War on Language
>
> ​It is a tribute to the melting pot that the largest ethnic minority in the
> Homeland, German Americans, didn't need to be interned during two world
> wars, and even marched off in droves against their Vaterland.​  With the
> ethnicity boom,  the pot got shoved to the back burner.
There you are wrong. German-Americans were in fact interned.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_German_Americans

---Amy West

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