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Offline morfiend

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« Reply #15 on: January 30, 2007, 04:15:31 PM »
Shamus....:lol :lol :lol :rofl :rofl :rofl

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« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2007, 03:27:31 PM »
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by todays standards.


Exactly. I said I am not defining this by todays standards because many words we use have been corrupted in the recent years. Look at words like 'Gay' or 'Queer'. Once, not so long ago they meant 'happy' and 'odd' and yet nowadays you cant say the words without some little kid bursting out laughing.

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The allies called them "the resistance"


The resistance were the people who were rising up in the countries. I beleive they had a different term for their own agents they dropped in....

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« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2007, 05:13:58 PM »
France's government was collaborating with Germany. Germany's govermnent... well they were in charge of Germany. You might call the French fighters "insurgents" -- only this was open warfare, not some third-world uprising. In open warfare you don't have "insurgents". Those tend to only happen in "peacekeeping" duties. It's a totally different connotation, I'd say.

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« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2007, 05:14:52 PM »
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no no no

NO

Just plain ignorant


Quoted for truth

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« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2007, 05:24:38 PM »
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The resistance were the people who were rising up in the countries. I beleive they had a different term for their own agents they dropped in....


 Hence the opening sentence in my post:




The ones who were citizens of the countries they were operating in...