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From: "Sarah" <>
Subject: [GERMAN-TEXAN] thanks
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 02:51:26 -0500
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Thank you but now we may have a blitzkreig going. Hopefully they have all
gone to sleep which is what I need to do but I'm waiting for an English
friend to get up. ;-)

Actually I did my homework, it was interesting that there were few in Texas.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/CC/pfc1_print.html



> Sarah was only joking and carpetbagger is not an insult. In fact, it
> is a post-Civil War term. Please be more considerate and don't chew
> people out in public.
>
> Dave Crane
> List Moderator
>
>
> At 10:58 PM 5/20/2007, you wrote:
>>Good grief, My Germans were Union, and proud of it.
>>
>>They worked hard. And stayed here. Do not insult them by calling them
>>Carpetbaggers
>>.
>>A lot of Germans in Texas supported the Union.
>>
>>JMS


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