a friend writes: “a .sig quote I liked”
“Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to Complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British army in their Treatment of our unfortunate brethren.”
-George Washington, speaking to the officer he placed in charge of 211 prisoners taken at Princeton.
According to a recent review in the NY Review of Books “After the war, over three thousand Hessian soldiers elected to remain in a country where they enjoyed rights denied them at home.”
Think those Iraqi detainees/prisoners are thinking of emigrating to these shores?