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To: ozzymandus

If you actually think the US saved Britain in two world wars, or won those wars for everyone else, you really need to learn your history.

You helped Britain, and for that we in the UK are truly grateful. We are, we will never forget the sacrifice of the millions of young American men and women who fought at our shoulders from 1917 to 1918 and 1941-45, even those who served in 1940 as part of our own armed forces. I have long argued that there should be a statue to the 1940 volunteers in London.

But this myth that America saved us and the world is not only bad history, it insults the people of Britain, and even more so it insults the millions of British men and women who fought and died or were injured in 1914-18 and 1939-45, the latter a war where we British stood alone against the evil of Nazism and Fascism.

It is only those who never served in those wars who shout from America about saving/not speakin’ German. Those young Americans who DID know exactly what the British people suffered, as they were actually there.


37 posted on 05/13/2014 11:37:42 AM PDT by the scotsman (m)
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To: the scotsman

Britain saved itself during the Battle of Britain. But it took the US to defeat Nazi Germany.

Hitler was ok with Britain being neutralized, while he turned his attention East.


39 posted on 05/13/2014 11:40:11 AM PDT by dfwgator
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