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MPC GRAM

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Series 8, no 1554 Thursday, June 21, 2007

Movie Review

by Steve Feller

"American Pastime" is an excellent new movie on WWII.

Set in a

Japanese-American relocation camp in Abraham, Utah the movie clearly shows the tension between the local residents of this town and the camp inmates.

Several scenes of money occurred, for example of greenbacks being gathered for a large wager on the outcome of a baseball camp between the inmates and the townspeople.

We also see dollars being spent in the town by camp residents. The townspeople included some of the camp guards.

I won’t give away more of the plot except to say the movie does an excellent job of depicting camp life. There are some stereotypical behaviors shown on both sides as well as a predictable love story. The movie is very well photographed and one senses the utter frustration of fellow-citizens being put in a camp. Thus, the use of baseball helps us to understand that these are Americans in the camp. A link is provided with more details on the movie:

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Championship Question Corner

Question 202. Difficulty 1. What are the higest awards for valor in the US and UK?

Prevous Question: Question 201. Difficulty 1. When the trial MPC was printed, where was the intended place of issue?

Answers and comments: Bill Myers correctly answered that A yen was intended to be used in Korea.

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Editorial

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The aviation museum at Hill Air Force Base is well above average. It has some great aircraft from just about every era. It seems that they have worked out a deal where the museum is also the Utah aviation museum. This certainly helps coordinate resources.

Still, the emphasis was on military aircraft of which they have a marvelous array including some real nice WWII bombers.

There was not too much of a numismatic nature. There was one nice (long) short snorter and a few other notes in various displays, but nothing of consequence.

There were two really interesting pieces of WWII trench art. Both were bracelets made from the skin of wrecked aircraft. One of these had an engraved design that was very hard to make out. The other had a homeland Japan coin mounted on it. This type of item is more often seen with an Australian (US minted) coin so I thought that it was a nice item. The lighting in that section was very poor so I did not even try a photo.

As you would expect, there were quite a few medal groups displayed. None were particularly interesting.

There are no medals of honor displayed, but there is some interesting MOH information which I will discuss next time.

In the meantime, you can visit the museum at:

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Gram,h The ANA summer seminar scholarship is a

wonderful thing and I want to thank all the Gramsters who donated to this fund.

Some of you know me, some don't but I thank all of you for this scholarship.

In the past I have raised money at the summer seminar for the YN scholarships and I have funded several scholarships for our local three local clubs as I believe that the summer seminar is the best value for the money in our hobby.

This year I was not going to attend unless I received a scholarship as my budget was not plentiful enough for me to go.

So thanks to your generosity, I will attend and help raise funds for the YN this year.

Also I will help raise money for the military scholarship fund and help send some one next year.

Respectfully

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Calendar

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2007

ANA Summer semnar

Session I: June 24-29, 2007*

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