A midnight hanging and blood-splattered wounded. Come back to a summer night in August of 1944 at Fort Lawton in Seattle for an exploration of violence and mayhem. On that night two hundred American black soldiers attacked Italian POWs in their barracks and orderly room. After the belated arrival of MPs, dozens of the wounded were taken to the hospital. In turn, the War Department began a monthly IG investigation as to the causes of the riot and more. A court martial ensued and 28 soldiers were found guilty of participating in a riot. Other Italian and German POWs in the Seattle area during WW II however avoided mayhem.
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As a writer, history has been my preoccupation on topics from English history and free trade, the legitimacy of public schools, the survival of public schools during the Great Depression and this work on military history. In this light I have been a high school teacher of history. For a decade I served as a hearing officer for the Seattle Public Schools and also conducted arbitrations for the Better Business Bureau.
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