On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Joe Zeff <j...@zeff.us> wrote: > And, on a more international note, if somebody just mentions "the war," > which war do you think of first? I think that for most people it depends > on their age because they'll think of either the first one in their > lifetime or the first one they learned about when they were young. I'm a > 'Nam vet, but to me, the first war I'll always think of is going to be WW > II because its after effects were still big when I was a child. Yes, there > was Korea when I was small, but it didn't have any impact on me, especially > when compared to WW II. >
I think it's also a cultural thing. In the UK, despite a number of more recent conflicts which were certainly wars and are even called as such (the Falklands war for example), *the* war means WWII. poc
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