Originally posted by AG Sachsenberg:
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Just a few minor corrections from a fellow-US citizen.
If you so much as say toejam about the movie Pearl Harbor... The fact that US could fight a good war 60 years ago does not have anything to do with quality of Holliwood movies today.
...Never recieving Recognition for saving our "allies" tulips in WW2... Hard to tell that without living in a country. US contribution to the war was greatly understated in the USSR.
...I am very sympathetic towards the fins for they kicked bellybutton with the numbers they fielded against the russians... If by "kicked ass" you mean "won major victory", that is not entirely the case. In the Winter War fins defended long-prepared positions against russians in the winter campaign and were defeated with casualty ratio quite common for that kind of operation. There were more russians tehre, but any offence requires minimum 4:1 advantage and winter is much more benfitial to the defender.
France should be kissing our tulips right now... French spent more time in WWII fighting brits on the german's side then other way around. According to some sources they seemed to be more pissed off with brits then with germans. If not for political tricks involving newly-created french government in exile, France might have had as well ended on the defeated side.
The fact that some of our countrymen participated in the war 60 years ago does not mean that USA today is entitled to any respect. This country is quite different now then it was at that time.
If we want respect for US now you and me should work for it ourselves. Why would you care though? A slaver state is in UN Human Rights Council and US out tells you a lot of what anybody's opinion is worth.
We will see if people like the Pearl Harbor movie by the revenues it raises. If we cannot get any respect for our veterans, at least some studio owners will make money on their memory...
miko
[This message has been edited by miko2d (edited 05-14-2001).]