My wife and I often frequented Windows on the World for cocktails and hors d’oeuvres.

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A few columns ago we discussed an instructional manual for American servicemen in Britain in 1942, the column’s headline was “Over Here, Over Paid and Over Sexed”, describing the Brits impression of American GI’s.  But the manual for the GI’s discussed the American’s impressions of the Brits and suggesting how the GI’s should behave in their [...]

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Over here, over paid, and over sexed is how the Brits described the American GI’s during World War II. A friend of mine of the ‘Greatest Generation’, Art Nicholas, who spent some time in the UK during World War II as the equivalent of what today is a Navy Seal and participated in operations for the Normandy invasion clandestinely at Slapton Sands in England, [...]

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