>>>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

Ah but one could argue that for your grandfather's life many more US boys would have died than did if they had entered earlier.

One could also argue that the US, with its doughboys, wasn't prepared to fight a war on this scale back them. I don't know.