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Re:The Japanese Soldier Who Fought WWII for 30 Years by yummyfajitas on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @01:35PM (#1491664)
"...but that's been changing in the recent decades since the FBI, NSA and others were founded."

I wouldn't exactly characterize the last 6-8 decades as "recent".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nsa

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Re:The Japanese Soldier Who Fought WWII for 30 Years by avar on Tuesday July 06, 2010 @04:33PM (#1492273)
Relatively speaking. The first census was taken in 1790, the records being kept about US citizens today are a relatively recent thing compared to that.
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