Paul Duane: I was being given a tour of Huntsville, AL once and my host referred to an area as “Germantown”, I innocently asked why so many Germans were there & was told “they came after the war”. Then I remembered that NASA is headquartered there…

there is something extraordinarily weird about how you'll be driving through a seemingly relatively normal US state and suddenly there's this patch where everyone apparently thinks theyre in Bavaria or something, even fuckin Frankfurt doesnt have this many German restaurants lined up side by side

I was being given a tour of Huntsville, AL once and my host referred to an area as “Germantown”, I innocently asked why so many Germans were there & was told “they came after the war”. Then I remembered that NASA is headquartered there…

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'V 2 can share in the American Dream'

I see and am delighted by what you did there.

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One interesting consequence of the Americans not landing on the moon first in “For All Mankind” is that the US government stops giving cover to Wernher von Braun, so he’s raked over the coals in court and in the media about his Nazi past, and is persona non grata afterwards.

"The Russians scare us, we hate the French, the British can't afford us, but the Americans . . . ."

There were a pile too in west Texas. The Nazi offspring got to go to the good schools Mexican Americans were denied until the 1960s/1970s.

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