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Old 05-08-2008
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258 Irish immigrant Medal of Honor winners, 8 of the 19 double winners Irish born or child thereof

 
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Thumbs up Re: McCain Reaches Out to Hispanics (including racialists) on Cinco de Mayo

A large percentage of American citizens are Latino with a good many of them of Mexican background. It's only right and politically smart to recognise their cultural sides and court their votes.
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Around 200,000 Irish immigrants served in the Union and Confederate armies in the American Civil War, often forming their own regiments and, at times, fought each other. At Fredericksburg, the Union’s Irish Brigade faced the Irish McMillan's Guards of Cobb's 24th Georgia entrenched in a sunken road behind a stone wall. Ordered to make a suicidal charge, it became one of the most famous events of the Civil War. The re-enactment portrayed in the movie Gods and Generals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qVCxEupPag
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