[Grovenet] Peace in Iraq

[Meredith Bliss]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 21:51, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
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> At least in WWII they had the very real specter of foreign armies invading
> our homeland. And it turned out that both the Japanese and Germans had
> plans to attack the contiguous 48 directly if not actually invade and
> occupy sections of our country.

Not just plans, the Japanese launched incendiary devices, by balloon if memory 
serves, to light our forests on fire. Not very successfully, but they did 
give it a try. One of them landed around Bandon, as I recall.

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