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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;wlwhittier, post: 10482972, member: 76316&quot;]You&#039;re correct in calling out my use of that word, AJ.</p><p><br /></p><p>Many of the art an&#039; craft pieces Leonard &amp; Annabelle brought to the US were bartered or purchased for very little goods or money. Japanese people were giving up treasures with deep family history or other major significance, to simply live.</p><p>I&#039;ve heard how 5-cent Hershey chocolate bars, an&#039; packages of Lucky Strike cigarettes were traded for all manner of services an&#039; commodities...openly, as all Japanese people were more or less severely impoverished. It amounts to a form of looting which all conquered, subjugated peoples have been put to in one way or another for millennia. It&#039;s not right...but that&#039;s the truth.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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