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"Just a kind question: How old are you???"

Old enough to remember my father, a B-17 pilot in WWII, talk about getting shot at with fine Swedish steel by the Germans.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between the Allies and the Axis is someone who cannot discern good from evil, and frankly has nothing worth hearing to say on the subject.

I'm 58. How old are you?

73! And, I was there, at that time in Denmark when we were occupied by the Nazi Germans. I was also there when the Dane smuggled the majority of Danish Jews to Sweden. I was there when neighbors would pay the rent for these Danish Jews refugees until they came back from Sweden in 1945. I also remember to see the Red Cross convoys of buses transferring starved and sickly concentration camp prisoners rolling through Jutland via Fyn and Sjalland to Copenhagen and shipped across the Sound to Helsingborg and Malmo in 1944-45 where they were cared for compassionantly by the Swedish people. These transfers were arranged by the Swedish Count Bernadotta. Before you start trash the Swede, you should learn your history a little better, because Sweden's neutrality had an immense positive impact for the allies during the later part of WWII.
What I have taught you here is a very very small part of Sweden's roll, and in my view, a mostly positive roll. Please be aware not to be a Dan Blather before you throw out accusations!!!

"Just a kind question: How old are you???"

Old enough to remember my father, a B-17 pilot in WWII, talk about getting shot at with fine Swedish steel by the Germans.

Anyone who can't tell the difference between the Allies and the Axis is someone who cannot discern good from evil, and frankly has nothing worth hearing to say on the subject.

I'm 58. How old are you?

73! Please also see my post #393.
I appreciate and honor your father serving the country as B-17 pilot, however, with all due respect, how would your father be able to know, up there 20-30k feet in the sky, that he was shot at by fine Swedish steel? Have you ever heard about the name Krupp??
I assume your second paragraph is addressed to me???
Yes, the Baby Boomer knows it all. Thank you!!!