On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:23:58 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>blake murphy wrote:
>
>>
>>> All that said, the US has a right to be proud of what we did during WWII,
>>> but we need to acknowledge what others did, too...
>>>
>>
>> yes, of course. what i'm thinking of is the drunks down at the VFW hall
>> mumbling about how 'we saved their asses in The Big One...' and therefore
>> they should kiss *our* asses forevermore.
>
>
>I have to say that I have never heard those kinds of comments from
>Canadian veterans, and I have known a lot of them. They figure that they
>went over and did there duty and are proud to have done so. And our guys
>were over in Europe long before the Americans in both world wars. Our
>government did not sit back and watch their friends and allies get
>pounded before the bad guys turned on them too.


For the most part any vets I've ever come in contact with for the most
part don't want to talk about it. I've never heard a bad word said
about our allies from our vets as everyone involved went through hell
and back.