>>>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.
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>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.
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>Tamar

Yes, and maybe the camps would have been liberated in time to save many.

Tamar, sorry if I seemed insensitive. I'd been answering and arguing till I'd become innured to the enormity of all this. Yes, of course you would feel this more keenly than a gentile, and I'm sorry for your personal tragedy. Like you I never knew EITHER of my grandfathers, their both having died before I was born. My maternal, a merchant navyman on convoys etc., died not of enemy action but ironically by being run over by a tram (streetcar) at Liverpool docks.

Terry