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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: re: Reed and WWII
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Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 01:36:40 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  9 01:36:40 1985
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> ... Wolverine has never been said to have served in
> WWII, though [Claremont was thinking about it]

Wolverine has explicitly referred to having experienced "that winter
under Monte Cassino", or something along those lines (my X-Men back
issues aren't where I can check them quickly).  Monte Cassino was a
major battle/campaign in Italy in WW2.  This can be explained away,
but only in the most ad-hoc and unsatisfying manner.  It has also been
established -- I think -- that Wolverine has seen active wartime duty
as a soldier.  That, too, tends to pin things down.  If one assumes
that his military service was in the Canadian Army -- it's hard to
reconcile anything else with his history -- then that means WW2 or
Korea, period.  Canada hasn't been involved in that many wars, guys...

I also see no reason to stamp your foot and insist on explaining
these things away in some odd fashion.  Wolverine is not young, and he
has a complicated history and a mutant metabolism.  Giving him a WW2
background doesn't cause any problems, because he's too obviously a
special case for any troublesome conclusions to be drawn.

Incidentally, saying "Xavier was in Korea, not WW2" doesn't help all
that much.  Those two wars were only a few years apart, and they were
both a long time ago.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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