Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV View Post
DISGUSTING!!!

Sometimes i want to travel back in time to beat people up...
Yeah. But isn't that partly the issue here? We're casting aspersions on decisions made 60+ years ago, before any of us were born. Decisions no one likely would ever make today. Did Gen. "Beetle" Smith don a white hood and burn crosses in front of Senegalese barracks? No. He excluded them from the photographed historical record of an event so it would look like one group of Europeans/white guys had defeated another group of Europeans/white guys, with no discernable help from non-Europeans.

A silly thing, in hindsight. But I've seen sillier: I've been in military parades that excluded anyone under 5 foot 5" tall, or over 6 foot 1", for the sake of some Sergeant Major's sense of uniformity, unit cohesion be-damned.