Good plug for the NOAA commissioned officer corps. Very small group of professionals that do great work.

My grandfather kept this news clipping because my grandmother was in a picture. The article about Anna May Wong is telling in how influential she was back then though. Rife with stereotypes as it is its still interesting.

Keanu Reeves and Meg Tilly. Both half chinese

The proposed Hybrid DARPA suggested was to make them heavier than air and use translational lift to get airborne. I think the LEMV that’s back in UK is that way. We would definitely want this for strategic airlift. Fills gap between C5 and black bottom ships.

I think that was what dragon Dream built at the old Tustin LTA hangar was trying to do. Haven’t heard any news about that for awhile since it got damaged by ceiling collapse.

what I take from all your comments is the sense that you don’t think that many acts in our country were taken due to racial prejudice but had valid causes. That’s mainly my point - despite what may seem like justifiable explanations for the various injustices against AAs - racial bigotry was often a key component of…

see above reference to Gen Emmons decision not to evacuate or inter most of the Hawaii Japanese for practical reasons. note: in 1941 about 1/3 of the Hawaii population was of Japanese ancestry - they were and remain today a major part of the Hawaii economy/social fabric. Race relations in Hawaii were different than…

I never resorted to ad hominem attacks man that’s not really cool. I just think you’re misinformed because you’ve read a few superficial and biased things that haven’t painted a complete picture for you.

Tell General Dewitt:

I’m well aware of the Boxer Rebellion. My father went to prep school on a scholarship funded by Boxer reparations.

Fair enough

You’re missing there were many different laws in effect that prohibited Asians from becoming citizens, owning property, testifying against white people, marrying white people, etc for many years. It didn’t have anything to do with Communism or WW2. After the influx of cheap Chinese labor for the railroads and gold…

I’m just not sure what you’re trying to correct. Even after the Boxer Rebellion China was not an enemy. Americans simply excluded them from immigration due to fears of the Yellow Peril. And didn’t repeal many racially discrimatory laws until the 60s. Also the ROC aka Taiwan was always considered a friend. The…

People like to criticize Madame Chiang but she was instrumental in getting the Chinese Exclusions repealed in 1943.

Attitudes towards all Asians have been hostile always. Ask Vincent Chin if it made any difference between 1871 to him. I don’t understand what point you’re trying to make. Asian immigration and miscegenation was severely limited all the way up until the 1960s. My grandfather was one of the few legal Chinese…

Like the ones in Pearl Harbor skittering across the sky like tie fighters? Much rather have real planes even if approximations. We need more Frank Tallman and Paul Mantz like flying!

Remake of a George Burns Art Carney movie. It’s quite good.

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