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At the moment it is too much to read and find the connections so i just am leaving it as a note.
My question is how might this war and the Banana War be similar?
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four men starving to death in Alaska
(Call of the Wild?)
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle...
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Ramona invisible friends:
Donald duck, Jimmy cricket, Mickey mouse and Walt Disney,
Walt gets his head blown off by a japanese stove. Japanese stove looks like an egg. I have a barbecue from WW2 that is a barbecue egg. Reminds me of the the atomic bomb
four men starving to death in Alaska
(Call of the Wild?)
Yellow and brown...the color of the German uniform
Hmm...."I was a nice girl wasn't i?"
I looked up "banana war" and found this:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banan...
I think this quote is relevant to our discussion about The Catcher in the Rye:
Perhaps the single most active military officer in the Banana Wars was U.S. Marine Corps Major General, Smedley Butler, who saw action in Honduras in 1903, served in Nicaragua enforcing American policy from 1909–1912, was awarded the Medal of Honor for his role in Veracruz in 1914, and a second Medal of Honor for bravery while "crush(ing) the Caco resistance" in Haiti in 1915. In 1935, Butler wrote in his famous book War Is a Racket:
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
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