>>>>>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
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>>USA had no obligations to help Stalin. Would you imagine Soviet Union voluntarily giving help to America?
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>But Germany was at war with more than the Soviet Union and my grandfather wasn't in the USSR. He was born and lived in Germany. Had the US entered the war sooner, the Germans might have had fewer resources to put into killing those that weren't part of the "master race."
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>Tamar

I understand your point. Unfortunately, wars get rarely started by humanitarian reasons.