On Fri, 05 May 2006 10:48:00 -0500, F. George McDuffee
wrote:

On 4 May 2006 22:40:19 -0700, "Gus" wrote:
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I don't believe that in WWII the media, Hollywood actors, and many
university professors opposed the administration and the war and
actually "wanted" us to fail, like it seems they do today.
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Russia, no matter how many US ships are sunk and US sailors
killed on the Murmansk run."

I'll always remember having my dad, at the age of 80, crying as he
told me about the Murmansk runs he was on while serving on a Royal
Navy destroyer.
Evidently their orders were NOT to pick up survivors from sinkings as
the Royal Navy were desparately short of trained crews and could not
afford to lose ships to German submarines.
He said the cries of joy that greeted the sighting of a Naval vessel
changes to screams as the men were chewed in their propellers.
No "post-traumatic stress syndrome" help for any of those men, they
had to live with it till they died. My mam said Dad woke up screaming
for the first two years after the war finished. He served from Oct.
1939 to Mar. 1946.
Mike Gray in BC