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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:23 PM
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My great uncle went down with the ship.... the ROHNA.
Ever hear of The ROHNA? It carried 2,000 people at the time it went down. WWII November, 1943. 800 survived. 1200 died. Family members just found out in 1993 what happened to their long "lost" loved ones... MIA was all they were told. FOR FIFTY YEARS!!

A Nazi missle hit this ship and we didn't want to let anyone know, for political "reasons"...UGHHHH!!! So the whole damn thing was covered up. Almost EVERY mother got old and passed away NEVER KNOWING what happened to her child.

My dad just learned what happened to his uncle. My dad is seventy.



http://rohna.org/

If you haven't heard of this, you will be blown away. It like hiding the freakin' Titanic. Read the essays/stories/poems by the survivors. Oh my God, some of their own family members didn't believe them that this actually happened, because there was NOTHING IN PRINT..... A MEDIA BLACKOUT.... I want to be sick.
:puke:

Same fucking government.. different day.
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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:25 PM
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1. Yea...that's bad....and I think we are going to see even worse
events coming out of this * cabal....

I am sorry your dad had to hear about this at his age....And of the survivors how horrible would it be to live through that and no one believes you...how many of their lives were destroyed....
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-09-06 10:32 PM
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2. Scary, and so true....
I was reading the guestbook over there and someone said the same thing, referring to the hidden nightmares of WWI that probably still aren't out.

I know some people are trying to get their hands on more government documents about this, but are hitting brick walls.
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halobeam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jun-10-06 11:06 AM
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3. Giving a kick for the Sat. crowd
:kick:
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