[SerpentDove]

>>No they didn't. My great-grandfather and grandfather, who fought in those wars, knew that and conveyed the information to their descendants.....<<

Can you flesh out that answer a little, please? Never heard that one before.

[LaBelleDameSansMerci]

"...Can you flesh out that answer a little, please? Never heard that one before..."

Certainly. The men in my family knew that whatever else we fought WWI and WWII for--it was NOT to save France.

The salvation of France after WWII---in World War I we did great harm to the interests of continental Europe--was collateral salvation.....