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Canada in 1941 had a population of 11.5 million, and lost either 39,000 or 40,000 warriors during WW II, depending upon which internet source you use. The US's 1940 population was 132 million, and the dead warriors totaled 295,000. Simple division shows us a death rate of 3.4 per thousand for Canada (using the 39,000 figure for deaths) and 2.2 per thousand for the USA. 3.4 is pretty close to 50 percent higher than 2.2. Actually 54.5 percent, but I think you get the picture.
Ted, in our schools in the deep south we learned of the bravery of the Canadian soldiers and of their high ratio of representation to the mutual cause of freedom in WWII, both in the number of casualties suffered, and in the per capita percentage of soldiers sent to fight the Huns.
Let no one call the Canadian people cowards unless they like me to spit on their shoes.
Now here's a little known fact: "More brave Canadians boys crossed the border into the states and joined the US Army to fight in Viet Nam than the number of pot-smoking US hippie kids who fled to Canada and hid out for the duration to avoid the draft."
And as for me, I wouldn't bother insulting our friends the Canadians if I did not admire them greatly and think them worth saving, would I?
Of course I wouldn't. 
TEd, did you see the movie "PATTON"? Good movie.
Here is a long URL that I have made short...
http://tinyurl.com/2f3ed
Orginally...
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/moviespeech
patton3rdarmyaddress.html
