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"Big John" wrote in message Martin

How short the memory. You probably would have been speaking German.

Big John your are a grade 1Asshole - Martin already speaks German, he is
Austrian.

Surely he should be speaking Australian?


The date of the attack on Pearl Harbour is not in grained on the minds of
Europeans. Lets face it we do not commemorate when the war started
(depending on which country you are from it started on different dates
anyway). The second world war did not start on 7 th December 1941. That
was
only the date the Japanese gave the US an invitation to join the war they
could not refuse.


I suppose that date is as good as any -- after all, that's the
date that there were the maximum number of participants -- and
it never technically was a 'world war', since not everyone took
part.

It is an important date from the British perspective. When
Churchill heard the news he is reported to have said that "Today
we have won the war".

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