Well of course they're jealous, the French don't have any war heros of their own.
Interesting you would say that on a thread regarding a WWI memorial. But not everyone has studied history, I suppose.
“...the French don’t have any war heros of their own...”
Obviously you have never heard of the battle of Verdun or so many others in WWI where the French lost a generation of fine young men and many many heros.
The problem is not the French. The problem is spoiled brat teens like the Americans who tour France in the summer and carve rock group names into the smooth stone walls within Notre Dame and elsewhere. Just look at the teen and young adult vandalism here.
Even way back when the film TORA TORA TORA first came out my mother was shocked by teens in the theatre laughing at the Americans being killed by the Japanese.
Read a little about Verdun. The French have plenty of heroes. They just tend to be badly led.
Maybe these new deracinated French dont know of them. Those of us who remember the poilus who fought and fell at the Marne and Verdun know otherwise.
“Ils ne passeront pas” (they shall not pass) said General Robert Nievelle and 360,000 Frenchmen died following his command.
No, but they left theirs at Vimy... and Verdun... and Bir Hakim...