Emotional appeals that involve anger, are much more appealing to me than this type of presentation. With that said, I don’t want it to sound like I think she was acting or something. I just don’t like the simpering mode of complaint.
Righteous indignation goes a lot farther than complaints through tears. One of the memories seared in my mind forever is the face of that Frenchman upon seeing his nation occupied by the Germans, so my thoughts on this are not universal. (I think it was the occupation and not liberation, but I could be wrong.)
A picture being worth a thousand words was infinitely more succinct that Susan, so your Frenchman observation seems congruent to me! =)
France, 1940.