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Originally Posted by Adam Y.
I remeber the Lend-Lease Act that was passed. Roosevelt did want to help anyway he could be he was facing a hard time.
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I think what you meant to say is that you remember what your
history book, your teacher, the news, or some documentary, etc. said about the Lend-Lease Act. Since you were not around during World War II, you don't actually remember the
actual act since it was far outdated by your time and my time. This is wholely relevant to what is being discussed because as you have shown, most people (myself included) are no longer able to distinguish between what they remember and what they actually are getting from a second-hand source. So as stated above by soezgg (and stated often by the best history teachers), "I meant that what you see in the media, what you learn in the news, textbooks, and statements other people have said, are all biased in a great way. So you have to be careful how you form your opinions, and
realize that unless you have first hand experience, you are just spitting out someone else's version of what happened."