>>>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.
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>>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.
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>If the US hadn't been so determinedly isolationist, my maternal grandfather might have lived a lot longer instead of being murdered at Auschwitz. We should be embarrassed about how long it took us to get into World War II.
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>Tamar

Millions died in Europe durring WW2. But You cannot blame US for not
jumping the gun right away. They went into the war after being attacked. Nothing to be ashamed of. More likely proud for what they have done back then.

Nowadays however, they do it without giving it second tought. Doubt to menu people will be proud of that 15 years from now.