My husband I just sat here and read each one-wonderful short stories. The kind that make ya wish you could have been there.
You said — I cannot vouch for all of them but surely some are true
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It doesn’t matter because they get the point across... :-)
Great stuff, woofie. These days all I can hear is spin and I wish it would stop.
Wonderful, I have read some before but they are great.
Now days we each open up our computers, look to see what new horror Obama is doing and - you can hear thousands of pins drop!
Thanks!
Incidentally if someone doesn't understand, this reflects exactly why Barack Obama, as Pew reports, is a golden-boy across the Ocean.
Me too and some of them probably are.
Especially the one by Dean Rusk (even if it's not true - but I hope it is.) In fact I always thought that Dean Rusk was a halfway decent Secretary of State. A rarity for a Democrat. He certainly would run circles around the current occupant of that seat.
"I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me." —General George S. Patton
"Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion." —Norman Schwartzkopf
"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure." —Jacques Chirac. Replied Rush Limbaugh: "As far as France is concerned, you're right."
"You know, the French remind me a little bit of an aging actress of the 1940s who was still trying to dine out on her looks but doesn't have the face for it." —John McCain, U.S. Senator
In the Spring of 2004, while on a business visit in Austin to the Texas Historical Commission ("THC"), I also attended the interment in the Texas State Cemetery of the lone French sailor whose remains were recovered when the THC excavated the wreck of LaSalle'e ship, La Belle, in Matagorda Bay.
After all the Texans had had their say, France's Ambassador to the Uniterd States took the mike and officially thanked us on behalf of his government for so honoring his countyman. When he had finished, he turned from the mike to leave -- but then he stopped, returned to the mike, and said,
"NO. I have more to say."
"I have thanked you on behalf of my government; I have done my duty. Now I would speak for myself, a Frenchman. I know there is tension between our governments. In Washington, I eat at places where no French wine is served, and I drive by places where only "Freedom Fries" are sold."
"But know this: the People of France have not forgotten what Americans did for us! In a few weeks, it will be the sixtieth anniversary of the sixth of June, 1944. On that day, watch us closely -- for the grave of every American Serviceman who is buried in the soil of France has been adopted by a French family.
"On that day, My family will visit the grave of Sergeant ....... who is buried near our home. We will have flowers in our hands, [here, his voice started to break] and I will be there, with a prayer in my soul, and with tears in my eyes -- in heartfelt gratitude for what you, our American friends, have sacrificed for me and for my countrymen."
"The People of France will never forget! Thank you! Merci!"
I was there.
You could have heard a pin drop.
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“The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch
and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens
of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in Paris and drink
little cups of coffee, but why this is more stylish than sitting
inside and drinking large glasses of whiskey I don’t know.”
~ P.J O’Rourke (1989)
French soldier dies in Afghanistan, 2 others wounded.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=162145
Great timing to post French jokes, indeed...
Do I hear a pin drop? Nah. Didn’t think I would.