Talk:Saipan

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Saipan is an interesting tropical island with lots of nice, friendly people. I've had many good times there and enjoyed it. Unfortunately, just like any other place, some people like it and some people don't. Most people I know also had enjoyed their visits.

Roger

Saipan does suck. It's an island used for USA's own greed. A puppet and hell for unlucky people and heaven to korean and japanese.

hello

'Superman?'

Contents 1 2 saipansucks.com 3 U.S. Marine cemetery 4 Suggested improvements 5 Controversy Claims

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Issues, queries... make them here. - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 04:24, 16 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] saipansucks.com

The following was removed from the article:

• SaipanSucks.com - Critical of Saipan

Why? And any objections to it being put back? - RoyBoy ⁸⁰⁰ 02:37, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] U.S. Marine cemetery

I notice that there is no mention of the military cemeteries that were on the island. Were they all moved to Hawaii? I know that the 2nd Division Marine cemetery was moved to the Honolulu Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific at Honolulu. Doc ♬ talk 21:44, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Suggested improvements

The sentence on Garapan seems out of place in the middle of the history section. How about adding a section on geography and putting it in there? 84.74.79.109 00:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Controversy Claims

"Garment workers in Saipan often live and work in fenced-in compounds (some residents also have fenced-in compounds),"

This statement is true but the wording seems convoluted. The first part of the statement is I think trying to imply that the workers are semi-prisoners and the part in parenthesis is defensive?

"and they are often not permitted to leave the fenced-in areas without permission from the manager and without an escort, although against the law and previously prosecuted, to limited effect."

It seems to me that anyone who lives on Saipan (I do) and can see the multitudes of garment workers wandering around wherever and whenever they please knows this statement is not generally true.

David on Saipan 13:19, 4 December 2006 (UTC)