France Bans U.S. Flags at Normandy Memorial!!!

The Dissidant Frogman ^ | 6/30/03 | The Frogman

[S.A. Smith]

I'm just coming back from Normandy and still have to unpack, but I wanted to offer you a new game to play, particularly if you're in for a D-Day tour this summer.

If you planned it, you may want to cancel your visit to the Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie (Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy) in Bayeux.

Unless you would like to play this game, I told you about.

[S.A. Smith]

As Elvis Costello once sang, "I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused." Let's generate some collective national outrage about this. As the WWII generation passes in body, let's not let their memory be erased by the likes of some mid-level French bureaucrats. Read the whole thing and look at those pictures!

[optimistically_conservative]

Good responses also to be found at:

Guess What's Missing From The (French) Normandy Museum?

[optimistically_conservative]

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Guess What's Missing From The (French) Normandy Museum?

[optimistically_conservative]

A lone American soldier is riding on a crowded Paris train. He walks around the train trying to find a seat but no luck. He sees a French woman sitting with her poodle in the seat next to her.

The American asks: "Please miss, would you put your poodle in your lap so that I can sit down?". The French woman replies: "Young man, don't bother us, go away."

The American, trying to avoid trouble, takes another walk through the train and still can't find a seat. He goes back to the French woman with the poodle and asks again: "Please miss, I'll even let the poodle sit in my lap, just please let me sit down."

The French woman yells: "Young man, I told you to go away and don't bother us, if you don't get out of here right now I'll call the Guard and have you removed".

By now the American has had enough. He picks up the poodle by the scruff of its neck and throws it out of the train window.

All this time an English gentleman has been peering over his newspaper and watching the exchanges between the American soldier and the French woman.

The Englishman says:" You know, you Americans are quite strange. First you drive on the wrong side of the road, then you use the wrong currency, and now you throw the wrong b*tch out of the window."