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From:	John(HI) (cpe-66-91-206-255.hawaii.res.rr.com)
Subject:	Only the images it conjures up...
Date:	November 9, 2007 at 4:50 pm PST

In Reply to: I didn't know it either. What I still don't know posted by soooright on November 9, 2007 at 4:14 pm:

in the minds and memories of those who suffered under the fascist regimes of wartime Germany and Italy. Similarly, the swastika was a perfectly acceptable symbol among American Indian tribes of the southwest (found on rugs, paintings and crafts--my mother's college annual from the early 1930s from the Univ. of New Mexico had the swastika on the front); but it was hijacked by the Nazis and is now non grata. There's nothing intrinsically wrong with the salute or the symbol, any more than a burning cross, a pointy white hat, or a noose; but they represent ideas that we as a nation find unacceptable.

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