So true.

And mustn't have anything the Colonists did during the wars seem worthy of a mention.

Um, need food do you?

Why then our Canadian navy will make sure you get it. Our vast wheat fields rippling in the morning sun will be harvested to make it so. Silver salmon from our rivers canned and shipped over by the ton. Beef? Canned milk anyone?

Torpedoes? Wolf Packs? Nazi's up the St. Lawrence River?

Johnny Canuck can handle it. And he fist fights wearing cavalry boots, scratchy serge mountie jodhpurs and a red mack shirt...his best line when breaking free from his Nazi capturers:

"The Germans had better learn to make stronger rope if they want to hold Canadians captive."

And the US? Busy making billions selling to both sides until December of 1941!

Back to Canada. Mustn't let the Mother Country starve. And we didn't.

We had our own beach, Juno, on D-Day...on maps until recently it showed the Brits as having three beaches...our flag had not changed to the Maple Leaf when the history books were published.

Besides, looks better to see three British Ensigns beside three US flags along the coast of Normandy.

Ever heard of Dieppe? Mountbatten's aristocratically entitled and enabled ineptitude squandering Canadians to get British hands on an Enigma machine? (Of the nearly 5,000-strong Canadian contingent, 3,367 were killed, wounded or taken prisoner, an exceptional casualty rate of 68 percent.)

Canada had a population of some 12 million during WW 2 and had at the end of the war the third largest navy in the world.

Over 1.2 million men and women served in our military. And we lost 48,000 men and women.

Or what about William Stevenson, a man called Intrepid? Winnipeg born super sleuth, thought to have been the model for Ian Fleming's James Bond?

Stevenson helped set up the O.S.S. and was a trusted confident of both Churchill and Roosevelt.

During WW 1, The Great War, Jesus what Brit oxymoron, of the 620, 000 Canadians who fought, we lost 65,000 men out of a population of only 8.5 million!

And speaking of Morons, how about WW 1's Haig, George V's buddy, squandering lives with arrogant class-ridden 19th Century aplomb?

And one must not mention that the 'Colonials', Canadians no less, won in one day mind you, the first major breakthrough battle of the whole damn Western Front, at Vimy Ridge in 1917.

Gallipoli? More Colonials led to the slaughter.

But back to WW 2: that's not getting into the Aussies and Kiwi's or Indians, who if not for similar British ineptitude and arrogance, as in the surrender of Singapore and Malaysia, 15,000 Anzac troops would not have had to suffer torture in Japanese prisoner of war camps.

Or the other 'fact': that Monty, who was the British hero of the second battle of El Alamein didn't' have any help : "But progress by the infantry, especially the Australian and New Zealand Divisions, opened up corridors through the Axis defenses that the British could exploit. "

Just saying...England was rescued first and foremost, indeed was kept afloat, by the likes of Canada for almost two plus long years before the Yanks arrived.

But one cannot allow that to seep into one's history books can one?