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Originally Posted by merrylander
I did not mean to disparage the U.S. contribution nor imply that the fighting men and women were not among the bravest and best. However damn few of us are old eenough to have taken part, I was 16 when it ended but had a brother in the army, one in the RCAF and a brother in law in the RCN as well as many friends and acquaintances in the services. War is obscene but should at least be remembered properly.
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Nor did I. I'm just stunned, however, by some of these numbers. It is astonishing to think that the Russians lost 14% of their total population (and 25% of their army). WWII is burned into their national psyche even more than it is ours.