[Info-vax] OT actors being treated as their screen character Was: Re: Nice printers for OpenVMS?

[MG]

On 9-8-2012 21:00, Paul Sture wrote:
> FWIW when I was in Holland in 1981/2 I was often bought beers by total
> strangers who on learning that I was English wanted to thank me for
> rescuing them or a relative from a German PoW camp. "But I wasn't born
> then" was met with "Well your father rescued us/them then".

How old were they, around 50~60?


> It made me realise that those of us whose countries weren't occupied
> don't fully understand what occupied countries went through.

There's a joke: After 1945, everybody was in 'the resistance'!

  - MG