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To: AnAmericanMother
Some towns in Scotland were almost wiped out.

And a whole generation of Britons. I think the Great War damaged the British psyche beyond repair. They're still good chaps and all -- for the most part -- but their genes have mutated to include a strain of radical socialism that will never be expunged.

28 posted on 09/26/2006 6:30:51 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
A lot of them emigrated.

Good friend of my dad's (now gone to glory) was a Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain. His whole family - wife and children - were killed in the Blitz. He emigrated and remarried to an American girl, and had a second family of American sons to carry on his remarkable courage and grace.

Our gain was England's loss.

30 posted on 09/26/2006 6:34:14 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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