Jim Wilkins wrote:
Lifted from rec.aviation.military:

Only two defining forces have ever offered to die for you
Jesus Christ and the _American_ [my emphasis] GI
....

A bit chauvinistic , isn't it? Pretty much every country's soldier was
willing to die for his country. At least to the same extent that the
American one was. And it's easy to exaggerate how much that was.
Rather than "Yes, I'll _die_ for my country!" it was more likely "What
the **** am I doing here?".