Reply #6: Don't ask me how I found out, [View All]

[pnorman]

but the originator of a thread isn't allowed to recommend his own posting (heh Heh). Still, I think this could turn into a valuable disdcussion. Consider recommending it also.

Here's from the original posting:
"........In the end more than 126,000 officers and men were sent to the Philippines to put down the Filipino resistance during a war that lasted officially from 1899 to 1902 but actually continued much longer, with sporadic resistance for most of a decade. U.S. troops logged 2,800 engagements with the Filipino resistance. At least a quarter of a million Filipinos, most of them civilians, were killed along with 4,200 U.S. soldiers (more than ten times the number of U.S. fatalities in the Spanish-American War).*

Those numbers are eerily familiar, as well as the circumstances.

pnorman