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-- Your story makes sense. It's hard to buy three tourists gttnieg "lost" like this. Journalists, spies, or journalist-spies makes much more sense. Besides that why would three tourists go hiking in a foreign country over foreign terrain without at least one guide? I doubt the trails were marked. ;)@anonymous multiple -- If you're gonna troll so much pick a sig at least. How else are all us Field Negroes and Honorary Field Negroes supposed to address those pearls you're casting before us. Take 8.19 such an original accusation (definitely not seen on every white supremacist website online) surely it's worthy of signing.@Rudy -- Thanks for sharing that. My cousin did multiple tours in Iraq but he was in the "Green Zone." The emails he sent were funny cuz he was always telling us he was safe while we were hearing on the news about another bomb going off near him. He didn't want us to worry and the only time he'd mention bad things was when one of his men got killed and when the Mess was bombed. I'm glad he's finally out of the Army now.@Jusus -- I think assimilation is definitely a worthy topic but I'd like to throw something out there for people to chew on. When we talk about assimilation we usually talk about it in terms of non-whites assimilating into the white world but I think it's far more stringent than even that. The demand is not just for cultural whiteness but a very specific kind of whiteness. Namely, the demand is that all Americans assimilate, at least in terms of social behavior, to East Coast upper middle class white protestant culture -- even other whites must do this. Whiteness is revocable in America -- you see it with whites who cross color lines, Jews who refuse to assimilate, "wi33ers" who lose their status, poor whites who are deemed "white trash" (the trash label delineating clearly they're no longer even human), in some places Catholics, white Latin@s who refuse to abandon their culture, any white ethnics who refuse to give up their ethnicity, poor Appalachians, and so on and so forth. Whiteness is a much stricter designation than most of us think about. A person of color can't adopt just any way of being white --become "Appalachian black" or "Jewish black" and see how that works out-- but rather must adopt a very WASPy upper middle class form of whiteness. Other whites must do so too or find themselves without 'whiteness' -- kind of 'outlaw whites' who are disdained and rejected by accepted white society. Even speech patterns must be "newscaster white" in order to be fully accepted. You also aren't allowed to be too poor imo even if you assimilate in all other ways.It's both fascinating and disturbing that we've created such a strict category of "whiteness/Americaness." But I wonder if the topic were approached more often in this manner if "whites" might understand the notion of assimilation and what one is forced to give up a little bit better. There may be a lot of common ground there.--j