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Banished: 'The Forsaken' by Tim Tzouliadis

Submitted by chuck, Aug 1, 2008 11:24

The story of the traitors is well known, and that is what they were referred to as during the 1950s. To be blunt about it, America did not want them back and the folks who had some idea what happened to them, because the news did get out to the public, (I certainly knew about it as a small boy back then) believed that they got exactly what they deserved.


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