In a message dated 2/14/03 5:26:58 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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> Well, "small number" ? are you sure ? I would bet that about a million
> soldiers serv in Vietnam which had, at most, about 500,000 US soldiers on
> its soil. That's about 2.5% of the then-current population of the US. Is
> that still a small number ?
>
>

To me, yes.  Almost everyone in France, Germany, Belgium, etc. etc. etc who
is over 58 got to experience WW-II first hand.  Almost everyone else has
parents or grandparents who experienced it firsthand.  My great great great
(?) grandfather got himself killed at Gettysburg.  That's how many
generations back?  The effects of war are not well experienced by most
Americans.  This is GOOD but I think that the lack of experience and the
knowledge that the war will be fought in Iraq not in the USA hides the true
effects of any possible war.

Wayne

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