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Pat,
BM's post doesn't manage to draw much of a parallel, since the Canadians, as he pointed out were part of an army which increased almost exponentially in size from the beginning of the war. As you know, this was in response to Canada's committment to the British Empire of the time and the multiple pacts and treaties which sucked the world into the morass in 1914.
The troops to which he seems to be referring, (US Army, I presume) are part of a large, standing army which seems to be having a job getting the people it needs to cover the task list.
As it is, he seems to be intimating these soldiers recently joined up en masse so they could go over there to 'Whup Kaiser Bill", or the modern equivalent. If people were joining up in the hundreds of thousands to go over and fight, I would grant him a point.
Les
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Les
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