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To: LindyBill who wrote (55704)	11/4/2002 10:43:58 AM
From: epsteinbd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Every year during the nineties, Canadians and Scottish D Day veterans were coming to visit my house, a Normandy manor lost in the forest that served as HQ for their division after the summer of 44. They loved the way I treated them, wine and thanks. I loved the way they treated us Europeans, then.

To: LindyBill who wrote (55704)	11/4/2002 5:45:22 PM
From: frankw1900	Respond to of 281500

OT: Although Canada had the Draft during WWII, you could not be sent into combat unless you requested it. Um. I didn't know that although it fits in with what was going on in Quebec, which had large fascist sympathies and didn't want to go to war for the anglos. The Prime Minister, William Lyon MacKenzie-King, possibly the wiliest and weirdest and most evasive of Canadian politicians at one point came up with a formulation, "conscription, but not necessarily conscription."