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Subject: army canteens and coffee

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Leo Kerr

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Date Posted: 17:05:45 08/03/15 Mon

"He poured himself a plastic cup of it, remembering how his old Army aluminum canteen cup could burn his lips." -- "Forgotten Killer" chapter 4

we had an old show about the Japanese-American internments during WWII as well as the 442nd Infantry troop of Japanese-Americans in Europe, including some oral histories. Rooting around on the table, one of the guys picked up a canteen cup, held it up, and, "this is an _amazing_ heat-transfer device. You fill it with hot coffee. It burns your fingers, and burns your lips, but the coffee's cold!"

Huh; we're not far off from the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066... (February 2017.)

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