Unfortunately since moving to the USA I have begun to see why Americans =
(broad generalization here) SEEM to think that they were the only country =
outside of Britain involved in WWII ... (and other wars)

The media (including the history channel etc) focus solely on US involvemen=
t with never a mention of Aussie, Kiwi, Canadian, Indian, Russian (yes =
they were an ally at one point) Malaysian etc etc etc troops.

( I did hear that N.Z. lost more men per capita than the other Allies in =
WW II - but cannot verify that one myself.)=20

Few people remember that there were other nations with troops in Vietnam, =
Korea, etc

I guess my point is that America seems to be very inward looking and tends =
to be distrustful of people from other nations. That's my take on it from =
Ohio : )

>>> sdalcorn@AVION.COM.AU 02/12/02 09:02PM >>>
on 11/2/02 8:32 AM, Paul Holthuizen at holthp@XS4ALL.NL wrote:

> That does not strike me as crazy. Australia is a part of the world
> nowadays.

Nowadays? We were certainly part of the world when we were fighting in
Europe!

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