Posted on 12/11/2016 4:34:22 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Paris (AFP) - US Secretary of State John Kerry has been given the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, with his French counterpart calling him "the most French of American officials".
At a ceremony in Paris on Saturday, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault also said the top US diplomat was a "tireless champion of peace".
"Francophone, Francophile, you are certainly the most French of American officials" Ayrault said.
Kerry's French heritage and fondness for the country saw him attacked on the presidential campaign trail in 2004, when he was the Democratic candidate running against Republican George W Bush.
Tensions were running high between Paris and Washington over the Iraq war, to the extent that America's beloved junk food, French Fries, were briefly renamed Freedom Fries, Ayrault said.
Kerry's mother and aunt were born in Paris in the early 1920s and America's top diplomat spent holidays as a young man at the family residence in Saint-Brignac-sur-Mer, in Brittany.
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I think he had to get 3 purple hearts to get the “get out of jail free” card ... but it did take medical assistance to apply the Band-Aid!
I didn’t read the article - was James Taylor co/recipient? D’OH!!
Legion d’Honneur??
His award dishonors those three Americans who while unarmed took out the determined terrorist on the train from Belgium to France last year.
YUP!...almost 3 months!!!!!!!!! and he spent a Christmas in Cambodia as well!....What a guy.....*puke*
James Taylor did as much for France as this Kerry bozo.
France pulled us into Vietnam and then they ran away (if my history is close).
Kerry went to Vietnam, ran when he could and claimed awards he was unfit to deserve.
Seems they deserve each other
Well considering it was a French medal, phftttt.
Looks like he’s playing with his nipples, there.
Didn’t Inspector Clouseau get that honor?
I hear tell that his boat was rather swift.
French Military Rifle.
Never used.
Dropped once.
For sale, Item 2:
US Purple Hearts.
Never earned.
Thrown over wall once.
Yes! back from antarctica, kerry is applauded by the socialist french for being know one and doing nothing PERFECT!
If I live my entire life without an honor from France, I will consider it not necessarily an honorable life, but at least a life with no tangible proof of dishonor.
No. He’ll cherish this one.
“you are certainly the most French of American officials”
Well, he is a terrible coward, so...
Will he throw it back?
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