[SOC] **Filtered as SPAM** Re: [OT] President Obama in Australia

[Ian C. Purdie]

Tom Osborne wrote:

With all due respect Tom, most kids my age were taught very early and 
forcefully that the following was and is total and utter BS.

> I think most american G.I.'s were pretty welcome in 1942 when they save your 
> country.

They wore their welcome out in under six months. In my district? The 
first arrivals were Afro-Americans doing the dirty work of setting up a 
HUGE nearby base.

They were very welcome, proved to be utter gentlemen. Then arrogant, 
swaggering, white Americans turned up.

My severely disabled cousin, having walked in front of an Italian 
machine gun was derided as the "Gnome of Notre Dame" at the local 
Saturday dance my mum held as a fund raiser for Red Cross.

Your wonderful, clean, white boorish troops, "saving Australia" ordered 
the Afro-Americans out of the dance hall. Led by a 21 year old gentleman 
officer. There was a near riot.

When the [again] southern white gentleman commanding officer appeared my 
mother was adamant if the Afro-Americans weren't allowed in then no 
dance would proceed.

By the next Saturday? They had all been transferred. Thereafter? No 
white American could find a dance partner.

[Source] My mother, older sister and my severely disabled war casualty 
cousin.
> 
> That is the biggest problem,--we have saved everybody's asses, allover the 
> world and they never remember that.
> 
> Lots of G.I.paid the ultimate price down there.  Think about that next time 
> you got something bad to say about Americans.

Yes. You might believe it, I don't. Just after WW11 after our father's 
returned from the Pacific War [those who still had fathers] were 
indoctrinated to never fall for the utter BS that America saved Australia.

In my father's own words:

"Were they going to fight the Japanese from Hawaii or San Diego? Never, 
ever forget Churchill and Roosevelt deliberately provoked Japan into the 
war"

Sorry.

But that is the bitter truth from this kids perspective.

Oh. It's no accident that during the Vietnam years American troops on 
RnR in Australia had to wear civilian clothes. The Australian government 
didn't want a repetition of the "deadly" riots breaking out between 
Australians and your "clean, white, pure, troops".

Sorry Tom, that's all fact.


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