did the Frenchies surrender yet?
Oddly enough, all of the hotels in Vichy have been booked in the last 24 hours.
The French military is not to be despised.
It is well armed with the latetest weapons.
It is possesed with admirable esprite de corp.
It is part of a 1000 years of history.
To make fun of the French is easy, and I have done it myself. They never recovered from losing a generation of young men in WWI. France lost 4.2 percent of it’s population. The highest rate of any of the major powers. The only higher were Serbia and Romania. Great Britain lost 2.19 percent. Germany loss 3.8 percent, Austria/Hungarian Empire 3.05 percent.
France was shocked to the core. It’s young men dead and underground. The very best, the tallest, the strongest, the bravest dead. They questioned themselves. They questioned God. They never recovered.
The United States never has been so traumatised.