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    Quote Originally Posted by Steven VanderMolen View Post
    I LOVED Gilligan's Island when I was a kid.
    To Steve VanderMolen: LOL.

    My memory of two islands owned by Communist China are slightly different:


    I made a few bucks from Quemoy & Matsu:

    https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content...-and-matsu.jpg

    The Chicoms used to fire at Formosa every other day. A few of the break/bulk freighters I sailed delivered materials to Formosa. My pay doubled on those days the ship was inside the “war zone”.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...that-lost-Iraq

    Incidentally, I often say Formosa instead of Taiwan. I do it because over the years I noticed that it annoyed liberals. I frequently say Peking instead of Bejing because it annoys China ass-kissers on the Left.

    And to me, Myanmar will always be Burma; Sri Lanka will always be Ceylon. There are more countries whose names changed since my youth, but I still think of the names they used before I swallowed the anchor.

    p.s. The Chicago sewer rat selling out Taiwan for eight years was to be expected because it advanced the U.N.’s global objectives without all of the backlash the American Communist betrayal in Vietnam triggered. Few Americans today can locate Taiwan on a map let alone understand its significance.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flanders View Post
    To Steve VanderMolen: LOL.

    My memory of two islands owned by Communist China are slightly different:


    I made a few bucks from Quemoy & Matsu:

    https://www.afhistory.org/wp-content...-and-matsu.jpg

    The Chicoms used to fire at Formosa every other day. A few of the break/bulk freighters I sailed delivered materials to Formosa. My pay doubled on those days the ship was inside the “war zone”.

    https://www.justplainpolitics.com/sh...that-lost-Iraq

    Incidentally, I often say Formosa instead of Taiwan. I do it because over the years I noticed that it annoyed liberals. I frequently say Peking instead of Bejing because it annoys China ass-kissers on the Left.

    And to me, Myanmar will always be Burma; Sri Lanka will always be Ceylon. There are more countries whose names changed since my youth, but I still think of the names they used before I swallowed the anchor.

    p.s. The Chicago sewer rat selling out Taiwan for eight years was to be expected because it advanced the U.N.’s global objectives without all of the backlash the American Communist betrayal in Vietnam triggered. Few Americans today can locate Taiwan on a map let alone understand its significance.
    Nice post, Flanders. Thank you.

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    The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865,
    fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had
    seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.



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    Quote Originally Posted by ParachuteAdams View Post
    The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States from 1861 to 1865,
    fought between northern states loyal to the Union and southern states that had
    seceded from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.


    Nice post, thanks.

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