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Newsday's article "A Bit of Justice" [Dec. 17] got me thinking: The Germans rounded up lots of folks, packed them into trains like sardines and shipped them to Germany, where they were forced into slave labor. Today, the German government seems willing to address its unpaid debt. Are...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author John C. Manigaulte, Gary M. Handel, Jim McCaffrey
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 23.12.1999
EditionCombined editions
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Koch, Ed
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Summary:Newsday's article "A Bit of Justice" [Dec. 17] got me thinking: The Germans rounded up lots of folks, packed them into trains like sardines and shipped them to Germany, where they were forced into slave labor. Today, the German government seems willing to address its unpaid debt. Are we yet ready to face ours? Four score and many years ago, all men (whatever happened to women?) were "created equal," but some were more equal than others. History reminds us that New York's very famous Wall Street was the colonies' first big center for the slave trade. For more than 100 years, the blood, toil, tears and sweat of Africans - stolen from their homes - built these evolving states. In fact, free labor got us where we are today. Wealth begets wealth, as our inheritance laws state quite clearly. And so, succeeding generations unknowingly (or knowingly) reap the rewards of a betrayed revolution.