Danes are born leaders...you're following one!

[kyburg]

Mom had that as a license plate frame for years. We've also had the frigie magnet that said "You can always tell a Dane, but you can't tell her much" as well. The point is well taken.

You can read a lot about what the Danes did during WWII to protect their Jewish population.

But the latest?

The Danish military has secretly airlifted out of the country about 200 Iraqis who were helping its troops.

The Iraqi civilians, mostly those working as aides and translators in the southern region of Basra, will now be offered asylum in Denmark.

Um, yeah.

It's kind of like, Christian. Wow. Who'd have thunk it?

(And pretty damn consistent in the bargain.)

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[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

And now I have Fred Small's "Denmark 1943" in my head.

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

*awwws*

Dude, is it fair I've never heard you sing?

[filkerdave.livejournal.com]

Well, there's stuff online, but no, it's not.

Clearly I need to get to California again!

[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

That is good, as the United States will not protect those who work for them. We've killed so many Iraqi's you'd think we'd at least help those who helped us, but NO.. Bush is so afraid of Iraqis that he won't even allow family reunification. Hey, we took in thousands of Vietnamese, why no Iraqis?

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

We did - just about after the fact. One of the things that has been rolling around in my memory are the POW/MIA bracelets from the Vietnam War. Remember those? Young girls wore them in the early 70's to protest the lack of action our own government was taking to recover servicemen held prisoner - remember those?

Mom didn't want to make us targets, back in those days. But oh, I remember.

"Supporting the troops" has been a misnomer in the American experience for some time now. I guess we could consider this some luck in the Iraqi experience. We aren't having the sheer numbers of POW/MIAs as we did then.

*knocks wood*

[n6vfp.livejournal.com]

Why there were so many POW/MIA in Vietnam was there was no concept of teamwork, there was a lot of tension in the squads and most people were looking out for themselves. Now the policy is no one is left behind, no matter what. A big change. I took the easy route, got into the Air Force and got a job that only fit the European theater. I still looked out for myself, it was SOP for the time.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

I know a few people still wearing those, actually; supporting efforts to recover bodies and so forth if nothing else.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Actually, we left behind a lot of our Vietnamese and especially Hmong allies, and those who did make it have had a hard time getting their families out of the camps in Laos.

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

Oh, go Danes!

[mycroftca.livejournal.com]

Bravo!

(sounds of wild applause in the background)

[kyburg.livejournal.com]

And if anyone wants to make a point of 'those dirty immigrants'...my grandmother was the first American born in her family. Both her parents and two older brothers were born in Denmark.