North Korea captured USS Pueblo, an electronic surveillance ship sailing in
international waters off the coast of North Korea. The crew were paraded in
front of cameras for propaganda purposes, and many of them made the gesture
known in the US as "the bird" or "the finger." This gesture is widely
interpreted in the US as meaning "F--K You!". The crew made this gesture in
order to let the Navy and US Government know that what the words they were
saying (had been told to say) were so much nonsense. When the NK security
people noticed the gesture, they were told it was a Hawaiian greeting.
Later, many of the crew were beaten severely when the NK security police
found out differently.
john
At 06:21 PM 9/17/2001 +0200, you wrote:
>At 18:44 16-9-01 -0500, Ronn Blankenship wrote:
>
>>Or another way of looking at it, for those who remember the 1968 incident
>>when the _U.S.S. Pueblo_ was captured by the North Koreans: it is the US
>>saying to every terrorist, "Good Luck from the Aloha State."
>
>Depending on the precise date of the capture, I was one or less than one
>year old at the time, so my memory of that event is non-existent. What
>exactly happened back then?
>
>
>Jeroen
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