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Kathleen Ruth Marks Letellier, 71, died February 22, 2024, at her home in Pinetop, AZ, of cancer. Kathie was born in Benton Harbor, MI, to Adolph Marks and Louise Waldeck

Origin An age-old technique for mobilizing a populace to fight a war is to so thoroughly demonize the enemy that the conflict becomes seen by the public as a moral battle rather than a political one. This technique was used to maximum effect in America during World War I, when for the first time the U.S. was engaged as a late entrant in an overseas war, a war that many Americans wanted no part of. Accordingly, the Germans were recast as “Huns” to whom all sorts of atrocity tales were attr...