This debate is way beyond my ken: sometimes, I think that I shouldn't have opened my mouth in the first palce. :) :)

I don't know the differences within modern Catholicism. Thx, for the heads up. I will think about it in the future. Neverhesless, the point that though he might preferit if the Jews converted to Catholicism, I don't believe that he demands that Jews subordinate themselves to the Pope. :)

You can add Viet Nam to the list. Unlike Eastern Europe, we were clearly propagandized out of defending our own and the world's interests.

Nevertheless, I would make another quick point. It depends on whom you read, but in 1900, America was either 80% or 95% rural. We were a bunch of hicks! Populations had shifted to some extent to the cities, but not a great deal by 1941.

For every one of your relatives who would have been liberated from the commie rats, how many of us would have paid the price? These American families had long ago left Europe (including my Polish aunt who referred to herself as a Bohunk) and its endless wars. I know you realize it, but these Americans were just as valuable to their families as your grandparents, aunts, uncles, children, neices and nephews are to you.

I was using "heaven" loosely, and yes Jews are waiting. However, the way a conservative, religious Jewish friend explained it to me, in the end in the ultimate hereafter, Jews end up at a higher level than us goy. If there is a different interpretation, I would love to hear it.

I clearly remember the afternoon he told me that at a local San Francisco East Bay outdoor coffee shop because he was embarrassed to admit it. :)