Being a World War II, buff, I was already intimately familiar with the horrors and defeats that Britain endured in 1940, long before the US entered the war, and marveled at the resilience of the British people.
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Those movies, along with others such as Saving Private Ryan, helped those of us whose relatives fought and survived understand how what they experienced shaped them. Plus it expained their reticence to share.
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One strategy for shouldering present difficulties is by taking courage from the past. History does repeat itself, though. There was even an 'American First' isolationist movement before World War II. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/04/10/donald-trump-america-first-slogans/82602144/ …
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England and the UK are not interchangeable terms. Scottish members of my family were serving in the RAF in 1940. My respect and gratitude for what they did have no bounds.
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I genuinely thought this was a witty reference to our national football team performance.
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