Raj Feridun wrote:

> Yes, I know. Canadian soldiers fought in the great wars right
> alongside the Americans as did the Australians. I appreciate
> that very much, thank you.

That is an interesting way of looking at it. Canadian soldiers were involved
in active combat from February 1915, more than two years before the US
entered the conflict. Australia, too, sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers
in 1914, and suffered heavy casualties in the Gallipolli campaign of 1915.
In WWII Canada was Britain's greatest ally from the time Germany invaded
France (June 1940) to the time it invaded the Soviet Union (June 1941). As
for Australia, by autumn 1941 Australian troops had suffered some 1600
casualties in Syria and 3000 in North Africa. In the Malaya campaign nearly
19,000 Australians had been taken prisoner, killed or wounded by the time
Singapore fell to the Japanese (February, 1942). This out of a total
population of less than half a million.

Then the US gets involved and suddenly it becomes (as you perceive it)
Canadians and Australians fighting alongside the Americans. I would have
thought it was the Americans fighting alongside the Canadians and the
Australians.

I also think the sarcasm is an insult to those who died.

--
John
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