"Andrew Chaplin" wrote in message
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My father, a Canadian resident in Britain, was conscripted (willingly)
into the Royal Navy in January 1940. He, and all his mates, fought
like ****! Fie, that you would devalue their effort. In *human* terms,
it was worth, second-for-second, everything your service was.
Second-for-second, in human terms, they contributed the same to the
defeat of the NAZIs. My father's class (b. 1919) at Lord William's
Grammar School was nearly wiped out à la the tradition of the Somme;
because he chose the navy he was one of the few who survived. He
sailed in the Atlantic and in the Indian, and not while it was easy --
part of his service was in a naval infantry battalion during the
invasion scare of 1940. It is a needless slight to your
brothers-in-arms -- cousins, allies, what ever you want to call them
-- to say that the war started on 6 June 1944.


I don't mean to be a stickler for accuracy, but Art didn't say the war
started on 6 June 1944, he said it began on D-Day. Art believes D-Day was
June 5th.