09-26-06, 04:05 PM
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Born to Run Silent
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Originally Posted by MSgalileo
We didn't need detergent, your white flgas are well pretected and we take care of them, you know we use them soo often, we can send you some if you want, we I see how you manage to our operations in lebanon, the next war you may have use of them.
I knwo the story of France and other country also, you always refer to french surrending during WW2 but there were a lot of other country who cease hostilities with the Nazi in 1940 but it s always to the french people you remind this, not the belgian, dutch, poles, ..... In situation where this only 2 choice continue combat with only more death or preservation of your troops what did you choose ? (it like the fall of the Phillipines and Bataan siege), you can blame the french but were the english troops, the alos flew at Dunkerk.
You can think what you want 60 years after with knowledge of all the events of the war but in 1940 the situation was should we fight until total annihilation or declare a cease fire and stop the war.
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When I think of France it isn't the 1940 surrender that comes to mind, but rather The Maquis de Lafeyette and the aid your people gave us in defeating the British. I think of things like the Statue of Liberty, a gift from the French people, or how the French still cheered Lindberg when he landed at Orly although two of their fliers, including the legendary Nungesser, had just gone missing in their own cross atlantic attempt. I think of the thousands of shot down Allied airmen that were saved from the Germans at the expense of French lives. I think of the thousands of Allied soldiers who survived the D-day invasion because ordinary French civilians blew up bridges and ambushed German columns and installations (and paid the price in blood), sometimes even while allied bombs were destroying their homes and killing their families.
Forget "Freedom fries" and idiots who feel the need to badmouth the country who has been our longest standing Ally. They and their words do not represent the whole of the American people. |
Amen. 
Before I traveled to Paris for the first time in 1994, several people told me to expect the French to treat me rudely. Ha! It was the exact opposite. I met and made several French friends during my three tips to France. Except for one harried waitress, French people treated my very well.
Last edited by Onkel Neal; 09-26-06 at 04:23 PM.
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