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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
It would depend on your definition of "patriotism".
How does when we got into the war make any difference at all in the deaths involved? Very few families here escaped losing at least one family member.
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You'd be surprised how deep that wound goes culturally. Sometimes I wonder if it isn't so deep that its subconscious on the part of us Brits. You've got to realise that as a nation we were dying and being attacked for a good few years before your country even deemed it worthy to help us out (and then it was all a lot of debt and....).