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

[Dirk Munk]

MG wrote:
> 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

That is true. As an example I recently heard the story of a resistance 
group in the North of the province of North Holland. During the war the 
group consisted out of appr. 15 men and women, after the war ended more 
than a hundred claimed to have been a member.