HOW DARE THE FRENCH FORGET

New York Post ^ | 2/10/03 | STEVE DUNLEAVY

[Republican Red]

February 10, 2003 -- COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - They stand only 3 feet high, but they're towering mountains of sacrifice. I'm standing in the American Cemetery. Gray clouds hang low as if in mourning for the nearly 10,000 young Americans buried beneath crosses and Stars of David that stretch as far as the eye can see.

[Charles Martel]

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

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I almost posted this last night.
Belgium broke faith, dropped the torch.

Hey, half that country speaks German, the other speaks French. It was inevitable that they would join the Axis of Weasel.

[A Navy Vet]

"That's one of the few stories about LBJ that makes me smile."

BS from the man who micro-managed the Viet Nam war and was directly responsible for thousands of America deaths and injuries. I detest him more than clinton.

[cynicom]

boot...

Point well taken..However if you delve into the records, you will find that the FFI were generally but not always communists, being directed from Moscow. Their actual goal was to take over the government once France was free. They were thwarted by De Gaulle. Therefore, risking their necks had a very evil motivation.

Ike let Gen. LeClerc have the honor of "liberating" Paris, course the Germans had already left peacefully. The irony of it was that most of the "French" troops that liberated Paris were actually Spanish communist volunteers.

History has a way of hiding things that do not square with public perception.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

The French are now "Freedom Fighters", but in the sense of against rather than for.

[WestCoastGal]

Read this thread I started last nght about the French connection to Iraq and Al Qaeda.



http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/839529/posts

[nightdriver]

August 25, 1944 is the date of the triumphal entry of the allies into liberated Paris and the entire city was in a state of jubilation. What is less known is that just a short 2 or 3 months previous to this, captured U.S. bomber crews were paraded through those same streets to the jeering and spitting of these same people.

Difficult to deal with people whose loyalties are fickle.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for the link! I should have posted on there so I could find it this morning! I skimmed it last night and wanted to go back and read it this morning but I couldn't remember the name of the thread!

[Trust but Verify]

Dear Lord how appropriate. Damn the French.

[Luis Gonzalez]

Ze French?

Cowards?

Mon Dieu!

No! No!

One thousand times no!

[landerwy]

I have walked the American cemetary in Kerkraden, Nethrlands located by the Belgium and German border. It is impossible to describe the feelings i had. Especially knowing that an uncle of mine is memoralized on a wall in Italy.

The point I wish to make is that all of those fellow Americans gave their lives in the defense of all these countries. It makes me sick how we are portrayed in the media there and the constant brainwashing that goes on.

I am one who hates war. I am also one who believes freedom comes with a heavy price and sometimes it takes force to preserve it. I wish these anti American regimes would realize our true intent protection of their sorry butts again but I hold little hope for that having lived among them for a couple of years.

Thank goodness we have a President standing up to tyrants who will threaten us and blackmail us.

[alethia]

Unfortunately, the same was true of most of the Greek Resistance fighters. Once the war was over, they turned on their own people. The movie "Eleni", with John Malkovich and Kate Nelligan is a good depiction of what happened in Northern Greece after the war.

[AnAmericanMother]

Here's another, more complicated, view of the sacrifices made for France. It's WWI, and an English viewpoint, but it does give an impression of the scope of the sacrifice - when Helen Turrell stands in the new-made cemetery:

She climbed a few wooden-faced earthen steps and then met the entire crowded level of the thing in one held breath. She did not know Hagenzeele Third counted twenty-one thousand dead already. All she saw was a merciless sea of black crosses, bearing little strips of stamped tin at all angles across their faces. She could distinguish no order or arrangement in their mass; nothing but a waist-high wilderness as of weeds stricken dead, rushing at her.

Rudyard Kipling, The Gardener

How soon they forget . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

Quite true. My dad was one of the American JAG who helped supervise the Greek elections right after the war.

A task made difficult by Communists shooting at him, his sergeant, his interpreter and their four mules (one for the ballot boxes!) But he said the really tough part was having to eat those !@#$)((^%* sheeps' eyeballs!

It's o.k., he says it was worth it.

[cynicom]

alethia...

Very true, the Brits had to send thousands of troops to protect Greek freedom from their own people. They can thank Churchill for that.

[JimRed]

Proposed protest sign:

BRING HOME OUR FIGHTING MEN...
FROM FRANCE

[finnman69]

[Bill Davis FR]

remember the french heroes of the maginot line...

[ppaul]

[dasboot]

Thanks: I get it, now.
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