Posted on 07/27/2025 10:19:21 AM PDT by Rummyfan
From Reims to the Rio Grande, history repeats—but in Trump’s America, the border holds, and the ghosts of appeasement find no sanctuary.
There is never a dull moment in the second, more cheerful reign of Donald Trump. I am writing from London, but was in France last week, picking my way through various battlefields and cemeteries in and around Verdun, Bastogne (think “Easy Company” and “Battle of the Bulge”), and Reims.
Well-informed readers will know, as I did not, that “Reims” is not pronounced as its letters might suggest but rather as a nasalized “Reince.” I have always associated the place with champagne, and I am pleased to say that the city capitalizes on the association.
But one point of interest had nothing to do with that magical elixir. Reims was also the location of General Dwight D. Eisenhower’s headquarters at the end of World War II. It was there, in fact, that the Nazis officially surrendered on May 7, 1945.
The headquarters, an old school building, is a sort of time capsule. All the maps and military paraphernalia have been preserved just as they were on that fateful day. The entrance is marked by four flagpoles on which flags of the four Allies—the U.S., the U.K., the Soviet Union, and France—flutter.
The chambers were undergoing renovation when I was there, alas, but on the doors was an image of the ceremony. Army Chief of Staff Alfred Jodl, his back to the camera, signed for the Nazis—Hitler, of course, being unavailable. General Walter Bedell Smith, Eisenhower’s chief of staff, signed for the Allies. Eisenhower, having recently witnessed the “indescribable horror” of the Ohrdruf concentration camp, declined to participate, thus denying the Nazi bigwig the honor of his presence. Jodl, found guilty of war crimes at his trial in Nuremberg...
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“No Immigration without Assimilation”-
Illegally present in America?
- GTFO - Every last one.
We can also choose to help LEGAL newcomers to America become more American through education, and with public events like 4th of July Parades and Memorial Day Observance.
Don’t promote ghettoization.
We can participate in growing our Republic and our country, or we can allow the Nihilists to destroy.
Fight the Woke Mind Virus at every step.
The 16th-century Catholic translation of the Bible into English, although done at Douai (Douay), saw the New Testament portion published in Reims in 1582. The Old Testament was not published until 1609-1610. The Catholic translation as a whole was called the Douay-Rheims Bible. The translators of the King James translation of the Bible (1611) are said to have consulted the Reims New Testament during their work.
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