Righteous BUMP!
Posted on 11/20/2004 7:51:55 PM PST by Rokke
A French Poem
Eleven thousand soldiers
lay beneath the dirt and stone,
all buried on a distant land
so far away from home.
For just a strip of dismal beach
they paid a hero's price
to save a foreign nation
they all made the sacrifice.
And now the shores of Normandy
are lined with blocks of white:
Americans who didn't turn
from someone else's plight.
Eleven thousand reasons
for the French to take our side,
but in the moment of our need,
they chose to run and hide.
Chirac said every war means loss,
perhaps for France that's true,
for they've lost every battle
since the days of Waterloo.
Without a soldier worth a damn
to be found within the region,
the French became the only land
to need a Foreign Legion
You French all say we're arrogant.
Well, hell, we've earned the right--
We saved your sorry-assed nation
when you lacked the guts to fight.
But now you've made a big mistake,
and one that you'll regret;
you took sides with our enemies,
and that we won't forget.
It wasn't just our citizens
you spit on when you turned,
but every one of yours
who fell the day the towers burned.
You spit upon our soldiers,
on our pilots and Marines,
and now you'll get a little sense
of just what payback means.
So keep your Paris fashions
and your wine and your champagne,
and find some other market
that will buy your aeroplanes.
And try to find somebody else
to wear your French cologne,
for you're about to find out
what it means to stand alone.
You see, you need us far more
than we ever needed you.
America has better friends
who know how to be true.
I'd rather stand with warriors
who have the will and might,
than huddle in the dark
with those whose only flag is white.
I'll take the Brits, the Aussies,
the Israelis and the rest,
for when it comes to valor
we have seen that they're the best.
We'll count on one another
as we face a moment dire,
while you sit on the sideline
with a sign, "friendship for hire."
We'll win this war without you
and we'll total up the cost,
and take it from your foreign aid,
and then you'll feel the loss.
And when your nation starts to fall,
well Frenchie, you can spare us,
just call the Germans for a hand,
they know the way to Paris.
Don Fichthorn,
Major USMC (Retired)
Bookmarked.
Who in the hell needs the French poodles? Not the U.S. nor its allies.
This has been all over the internet. I've sent it out to everyone on my list, and it is GOOD.
hah i love it
Good grief. I should have done a Google search in addition to a FreeRepublic search. You are right. It has been all over the internet. But like you said...it is good. Good enough to post again I guess.
Self ping
Perhaps one of the best poems I've seen .... ever. It's a keeper!
Ping
I don't even want to know what that's about....
I seem to recall reading this poem during the "Freedom Fries" boycott at the start of the war. But it's always good for another read.
Every time we talk about the French, I want every FReeper to remember that the French opposed the Allied landings in Morocco in operation TORCH in Novermber 1942. Rick Atkinson has recently published a highly acclaimed book, An Army at Dawn, which details the beginnings of our battle with Germany that actually began in North Africa. On Page 159 he says that the French killed at least 1,469 Allied soldiers (British and American) and at least 526 of those were Americans. The French have never been our friends. They developed and maintain their own independent nuclear arsenal of submarines with nuclear missiles. Some of those are probably off the Atlantic Coast of the United States today, with targeting of major American cities. The French have embarked upon a policy of forming a new central European combination with Arab alliances and themselves at the apex. they have been working toward this allignment for 50 years. The French are not our Friends.
Like the poem.
I read that book last year, it's excellent. Do you know when the next installment of The Liberation Trilogy is due?
Not bad......
Nice. It does say it all indeed.
Please tell me that is NOT a woman. I know European women don't shave, but...
Nice bit of history. Another is the survival of Jews. They had a much better chance in Italy, supposedly an Ally of Germany, than in Vichy France. At best, the Italians were reluctant collaborators. Even Mussolini didn't much care for Hitler; Hitler sought out him. The French were not only willing, but enthusiastic collaborators. The supposed Vichy neutrality was, in reality, an alliance with the nazis.
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