On Friday, July 25, 2014 12:51:09 PM UTC-7, Dave Smith wrote:

> On 2014-07-25 1:51 PM, janet wrote:
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> > In article >, says...
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> >
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> >> Last night I saw a show that wound up going to a cemetery where
> >> Americans slain in battle were buried, in France. It looked like snow,
> >> white crosses as far as the eye could see. What a sacrifice. All
> >> those men ran into battle even though they were being fired on
> >> from both sides and hardly had a chance. So brave.
>

> > You need to read this, to know who else were brave and sacrificed.
> > http://www.pbs.org/greatwar/resources/casdeath_pop.html
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>
> Well that is a crappy list. It does not show the contribution of the
> Commonwealth countries, just lumping them in with the British Empire.
> Canada, with a 1/10th the population of the US, mobilized 620,000
> troops. They suffered 67,000 deaths, more than 10% of the force, and
> there were 250,000 casualties.

As my mother's passport said decades later, a Canadian citizen was
a British subject. Whereas the US saw no point in supplying fodder
to be gassed. Only after the Second World War did the US sigh, and take
up the burden of preventing Europe from trying to destroy itself a third
time.