[78-L] Two days before...

[Steven C. Barr]

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From: "Kristjan Saag" <saag at telia.com>
>I particulary love the part of the youtube info that says:
>> Dec 5, 1941, just 2 days before the attack on Pearl Harbor, some folks
>> were
>> spending a carefree Friday evening around their new Packard-Bell 
>> Phonocord
>>  > 78 rpm record recording machine, unaware that come Sunday morning, the
>> world would be plunged into World War II.
> --
> I alwys thought WW II began in September 1939. But that was Europe. The
> World was plunged into war in December 1941. Cute.
> Reminds me of another ethnocentric joke, a headline from a British
> newspaper: "Fog over the Channel -  Europe isolated".
>
Keep in mind that the US Of A lives in its own world! The fact that all them
"furriners" (including Canada!) were involved in a major war was not really
worth noticing...a major "isolationist" movement was trying to keep the US
OUT of any "foreign" wars!! It wasn't until Japan chose to ignore the US
"script" and started attacking Pearl Harbor (one wonders if they actually
thought they could win...?!) that the US finally realized there was a MAJOR
war on...?!

Steven C. Barr