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In reply to the discussion: WTF ...10 [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)37. Do you know the history of WWII?
Do you know how brave many of the Norwegians were for instance?
It is easy for an American in the US to read Anne Frank and pride himself on having own WWII. It is another matter if you are, say, Norwegian or Dutch or French and have a family member who was part of the resistance or performed even some small act of resistance.
Americans are smug about WWII. We should be proud, but we should readily acknowledge the contributions that people made to helping us and helping the British win that war.
Smug we should not be.
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