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To: RinaseaofDs

The pejorative term “Gooks” has but one connotation: NVC, North Viet Cong Commies... aka “Charlie”


66 posted on 01/31/2008 8:57:08 PM PST by RTO (What will you do without freedom?)
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To: RTO
The pejorative term “Gooks” has but one connotation: NVC, North Viet Cong Commies... aka “Charlie”

The term predates the Vietnam war by decades.

70 posted on 01/31/2008 9:00:32 PM PST by the808bass
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Nope- goes further back, at least to the Korean “action”, likely further.


81 posted on 01/31/2008 9:11:41 PM PST by matthew fuller (None of the Above- 2008)
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To: RTO
The pejorative term “Gooks” has but one connotation: NVC, North Viet Cong Commies... aka “Charlie”

The term "gook" was used during the Korean War too.

113 posted on 02/01/2008 12:28:42 PM PST by Petronski (I didn't leave the GOP. The GOP left me.)
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