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hfojvt

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19. the word progressive is not new

Tue Sep 17, 2013, 10:45 PM

Sep 2013

I have always used it, thinking it meant somebody to the left of a liberal, although I now understand it has/had been co-opted by the DLC.

Also I do not understand how you could be born 12 years AFTER WWII and yet your pregnant mother left the city because of Hitler and because of the war?

Did Hitler become mayor of Frankfurt after WWII and was there a war between Siegen and Frankfurt at the time you were born?

I am having a hard time with the verstehen.

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for my 5,000th post why I am a liberal! [View all] gopiscrap Sep 2013 OP

Thank you for sharing your story with us. William769 Sep 2013 #1

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Thanks I came to the US and was taught once again by the Franciscans gopiscrap Sep 2013 #10

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the word progressive is not new hfojvt Sep 2013 #19

my mom got the frost bite on her leg and toes as a child walking through the German gopiscrap Sep 2013 #22

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yup. I don't know all that was behind it gopiscrap Sep 2013 #28

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