[dasboot]

A caller to the Liddy show just floated the idea that Americans should take up a collection to finance the exhumation and bringing home of the remains of our was dead at Normandy.

[Jewels1091]

wow..makes me so mad! I hope no one vacations or spends money over there!

[RoseofTexas]

I've been teary eye ever since I saw the picture of the BRAVE soldiers who are buried there!! That picture needs to be posted here OVER AND OVER AGAIN, so that we will NEVER FORGET the great Sacrifice of life and freedom our men gave!! PLEASE POST IT!

[theDentist]

This reminds me of a story about LBJ, when he was majority leader in the Senate. He'd gone to France and was meeting with DeGualle (sp?). DeGaulle was ranting on and on about America and LBJ was quickly losing patience. So he interrupted and told DeGualle that he was going to go back to Washington and order the Senate to pass a bill to "dig up the remains of every American soldier buried in France, and ship them back to the US for burial, starting with those at Normandy." DeGualle never spoke to LBJ in that manner again.

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

So maybe we should pass a bill to return the remains of our soldiers home to America again, starting with those in Normandy?

[AnAmericanMother]

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie
In Flanders fields.

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.

[cynicom]

My brother fought across France into Germany. Died to free France because they would not fight for their own freedom. Rotten French.

[Eva]

My husband's college history professor used to say that all wars came down to economics. The French and the Germans think that they have too much to lose in a war with Iraq. Maintenance of the status quo is imperative to save their economies.

France and Germany thought that they were on a role with the formation of the European Union. They thought that they were going to control all of Europe and finally become the world power to compete with the US. Now, we have thrown that all into doubt with our war with Iraq.

[Area51]

Hey France...

You bunch of Cheese eating surrender Monkeys!

[JeanLM]

The Wall Street Journal had a quote made by Colin Powell at the Davos conference recently. I think he said it about as well as can be said,

" We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly in the last hundred years...and put wonderful young men and women at risk, many of whom have lost their lives, and we have asked for nothing except enough ground to bury them in."

I haven't seen this reported anywhere else, which is surprising for such a powerful statement by a world leader.

[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.

[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.

[JimRed]

Proposed protest sign:

BRING HOME OUR FIGHTING MEN...
FROM FRANCE

[finnman69]

[Bill Davis FR]

remember the french heroes of the maginot line...

[ppaul]