>>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
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>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.
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>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.

You may be right, but my guess is that the war would have been shorter and the total number dead lower, had the US entered significantly sooner.

Tamar