Except that this time we won’t have to cross an ocean to get to the Nazis.

It may be because the Canadians were well known in both wars for not taking prisoners. That’s not true in every engagement, of course, but in Normandy, after a number of Canadian soldiers were taken prisoner and then executed, their comrades would execute any Germans they captured.

You probably also don’t know that the country with the most volunteer soldiers in World War II was India, than 2 million men.

Or that both Canada and New Zealand had mutinies where men refused to go overseas to fight.

There’s a lot of fascinating stuff. I recommend the podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk, for an informative and entertaining look at almost every facet of the war. They are up to something like episode #800 now.

My favorite thing about the X-Files was the spin-off called Millennium, whose second season was some of the best TV I have ever watched. It even did crossovers with The X-Files, like “Jose Chung’s Doomsday Defense”, a blistering satire of Scientology.