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Ontheboundry

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6. Here is the problem

Reply to Irish_Dem (Reply #5)

Sat Jun 22, 2024, 04:46 PM

Jun 2024

When the movies make these falsified facts, people drag the Tuskeegee airmen thru the mud l

They should have posted the facts and let them stand on the facts so nobody would tear them down

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