coderman wrote:
Juan, let me return your incredulity with clarity,
i know i'm old, but that also means i remember a time we were not actually at war (except drug war! in hindsight, that counts as war well enough...)
U.S "Personnel" waterboarding a Filipino civilian during the Spanish-American War. http://41.media.tumblr.com/6c6155a0f4f9f8233b5f035bffda624c/tumblr_inline_nq... Another war, btw based solely on fabrication...
In 1976 ... in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, Admiral Hyman Rickover conducted a new investigation. Rickover, something of a maverick in the Navy, came to the conclusion that the explosion was caused by spontaneous combustion in the ship’s coal bins, a problem that afflicted other ships of the period.
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5470/ IOW "Town Gas" blew up the Maine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_gas In summation, you must be ooooolllllld. Older than dirt. Older than electricity. -- RR "You might want to ask an expert about that - I just fiddled around with mine until it worked..."