70 years ago, WWII started

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@spendius,

I take it all back Ceili.... He's overplaying his hand again.

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For the life of me George, I just can't make heads or tails of his posts. Madly off in all directions.

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@Setanta,

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The "Van Doos" This corrupted name comes from their having been designated the Royal 22nd Regiment, which in their language is vignt-deux, and "Van Doos" is an English-speaker's corruption of the pronunciation.

Interesting, didn't know that.

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@Ceili,

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For the life of me George, I just can't make heads or tails of his posts. Madly off in all directions.

Others have the same problem. He is deliberately whimsical and comes at issues from a different, but somewhat consistent, prespective. I enjoy him a lot, but don't entirely agree with him.

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The US was very late to the struggle...but many countries NOT anywhere near Europe were not.

The Americans will always do the right thing . . . After they've exhausted all the alternatives.
Winston Churchill

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@Ceili,

The largest concentration of (Canadian) post war graves in Europe is in Werl (that's where the radio station was, too): 124 military and 324 family members of the Royal 22e Régiment are buried there (which is 20 miles from my place).

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Interesting to note that today (2 Sept.) is the anniversary of the the war's final ending aboard the USS Missouri,with the Japanese signing an unconditional surrender document on 2 Sep 1945.

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@Merry Andrew,

It's also Sedan Day . . .

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@Setanta,

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It's also Sedan Day ...

So I think I'll go and seddahn.

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Yesterday was also the anniversary of the beginning of the great fire in London in 1666 . . .

70 years ago, WWII started

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