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2004-06-02 Europe
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Posted by Steve White 2004-06-02 12:36:54 AM|| || Front Page|| [11133 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Depressing as all hell. All those American lives lost....on France.
Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-06-02 1:01:52 AM||   2004-06-02 1:01:52 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 I am shocked at how the French NOW wants to 'Buck Up' in it's security at the upcoming anniversay recognition! Ohh...I'm sorry, thats homeland security, they 'get it'!
Posted by smn  2004-06-02 1:09:02 AM||   2004-06-02 1:09:02 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Don't be too depressed B-A-R. (Gad, what a great handle!) They died to defeat fascism. France just happened to lie on the way.
Posted by PBMcL 2004-06-02 2:16:33 AM||   2004-06-02 2:16:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 I think if you do a little reading you will find the French people wanted to help the Americans. The Resistance did help and a lot of French individuals helped at the peril of their lives. The French leaders have not been and certainly are not now what we consider good allies. They seem to have a view of France being a country that has a "leading role" in world events and I think are not willing to accept that France is not now and probably will not again be a world leader.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-06-02 7:22:15 AM||   2004-06-02 7:22:15 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Take heart that they died for someone else's freedom and liberty. This is a unique American trait that the rest of the world doesn't understand. We're doing it again in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and elsewhere.

I truly believe the French hate us because they could not do for themselves what we did for them and the rest of Europe throughout the 20th century.
Posted by Douglas De Bono  2004-06-02 9:13:00 AM|| [http://www.douglasdebono.com]  2004-06-02 9:13:00 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 The Resistance did help and a lot of French individuals helped at the peril of their lives.

True but not in the numbers they would have you believe. Else the marquis would have outnumbered the German occupation forces 63 to 1.
Posted by Shipman 2004-06-02 10:00:01 AM||   2004-06-02 10:00:01 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 Im not trying to defend the French people of today. The French people of 1944 were in a bind. They wanted the Germans out but didn't have the ability to do it. In some cases, they didn't have the will. There were some very brave French people and soldiers who new if they were caught they and their families would suffer. How many people here in the U. S. would be willing to gamble with their families lives? I think the real problem was the French leadership not willing to put French troops under allied control. When French troops were put to the test they did exactly what De Gaulle ordered them to do wheather it fit in with the Allied strategy or not. I can understand this unwillingness to subjugate themselves to a certain extent but at this time it was better for the French to do this but they refused.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2004-06-02 10:44:32 AM||   2004-06-02 10:44:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 I wore the patch of the 2nd Armored Cavalry which says "Toujours Prei" given to the regiment by the French people because we were always prepared to defend France's freedom (in both world wars). Maybe it is time to remove those Soldiers and bring them home to remind them (again) their freedom was paid for by American blood. We haven't forgot Lafayette or Yorktown. On second thought, maybe it is better to have those soldiers stand post there forever and rub the French socialist's noses in the facts of history.
Posted by TopMac 2004-06-02 1:33:40 PM||   2004-06-02 1:33:40 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 "In Flanders' fields, the poppies grow, Between the crosses row on row...."

(Yes, I know it's Phrawnce, not Flanders, but that poem always comes to mind when I see pictures like this. And it always makes me cry for the thousands who died for freedom.)
Posted by Barbara Skolaut  2004-06-02 11:57:25 PM||   2004-06-02 11:57:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 #4 -
If you really do some reading you will find that most in the south of Phrawnce (thanks Barbara S) were backing the Nazi's. There lazy arrogant and just a blight on the planet. There is a saying in Europe "France is nice, to bad it's full of the French". There ingrates to this day! I spent 5 years there and have absolutely nothing nice to say about them! 3 day's after 911 some of those assholes actually had to balls to say "it is a terrible thing, but ya know, America kind of deserved it". They are loosing everything and grasping on to the last bit of fame they had. The Frogman should lick the toes of the USofA men who are returning for the anniversary of June 6th. Without them, they would be shinning some SS boots today. The whole place is vomit!
Posted by Long Hair Republican  2004-06-03 12:33:03 AM||   2004-06-03 12:33:03 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 DB, whenever I hear people talk about the Resistance, I think of what Guy Sajer said in Le Soldat Oublie, "After the war, sudddenly every Frenchman was discovered to have been in the Resistance." France died sometime between 1914 and 1918. She lost a generation of men and never recovered. France folded in WWII because it had lost the will to fight. If Churchill hadn't been able to hold out long enough for the Japanese to drag the US into the fight, Resistance or not, France would be a province of Grosser Deutschland. The spiral into oblivion continued after VE day as the colonies were lost one after another. France is now like an illiterate, innumerate child whose teachers will not tell the truth for fear of damaging its self-esteem.
Posted by RWV 2004-06-03 1:12:28 AM||   2004-06-03 1:12:28 AM|| Front Page Top

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