>If my grandfather was still alive I would make sure he understood how you Europeans feel about our participation, but alas he is not so he will never know.

If my two grandfathers were still alive, I would do the same. I guess I could count my wife's grandpa, who stormed the beaches at Normandy, but that is a minor detail. Any yahoo can do that. It takes a real man to sit on a message board and throw eggs at Americans day after day.