[kcvl]

I love this man!

[goldstategop]

Bump! The French will get the message that we don't need their phony gratitude and have had it up to here with their pushing their flagrant anti-Americanism into our faces.

[KantianBurke]

breaking news?

[exnavy]

Good for him, a true hero.

[HitmanLV]

Sentimentality over stuff like this is a weakness. I have thrown away every award or honor I have ever won in my life, because it has no value to me.

Being sentimental or valuing a ribbon and a shiny badge makes your weak. Sorry, that's the way I feel.

Find value and self worth for yourself, and shun external validation of it.

That being said, this guy is awesome!

[libertylover]

God bless him.

[ovrtaxt]

"France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these
drawbacks it is a fine country. France has usually been governed by
prostitutes."
---Mark Twain

"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

"We can stand here like the French, or we can do something about it."
---- Marge Simpson

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"
---Jacques Chirac, President of France

"As far as France is concerned, you're right."
---Rush Limbaugh,

"The only time France wants us to go to war is when the German Army is
sitting in Paris sipping coffee."
--- Regis! Philbin

"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)

"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 from Arizona

"You know why the French don't want to bomb Saddam Hussein? Because he
hates America, he loves mistresses and wears a beret. He is French,
people."
--Conan O'Brien

"I don't know why people are surprised that France won't help us get
Saddam out of Iraq. After all, France wouldn't help us get the Germans
out of France!"
---Jay Leno

"The last time the French asked for 'more proof' it ca! me marching into
Paris under a German flag."
--David Letterman

How many Frenchmen does it take to change a light bulb?
One. He holds the bulb and all of Europe revolves around him.
---Unk
Next time there's a war in Europe, the loser has to keep France
---Unk

[joesnuffy]

Whoa what a great guy

Give em back the Statue of Liberty to....tell em to stick it...where the sun dont shine on their faces..

[mrb1960]

I see we still got some Americans who have a sense of pride in their country and have values that necessitate calling France on the carpet for their crime.

[MinuteGal]

A man of honor, indeed.

Now I'm waiting for the right honorable Mr. Peanut to return the Nobel Peace Prize awarded to him for sustained trashing of our President and country.

Leni

[Mo1]

Steve from Fox & Friends just mention this gentleman

Good Bless him

[strmchsertx]

A TRUE AMERICAN HERO! SHOULD GIVE EVERY AMERICAN A REASON TO SMILE!

[anniegetyourgun]

Wow....just wow....thanks for posting this.

[gilor]

BUMP!

[missycocopuffs]

My father's older brother, a WWII vet, just passed away Sunday somewhere near New Port Richey. He fought through France to Germany, and while the official cause of death was cancer, I must imagine that French perfidy hastened it.

[VOA]

Disappointed WWII Veteran Returns Medal From France

All the French people I've interacted with have been unfailingly kind and gracious.
But then, they were all either immigrants to the USA or long-term US residents.

When I was in graduate school, a fellow student told me that his father had fought
his way across France and into Germany as an infantryman during WWII.
He said his father told him:
"If you ever meet a Frenchman at your university, kick him in the @$$ from me."
(I guess the old man wasn't too taken with all the limp Frenchmen he walked pass
as he was doing his "grand tour".)

[#1CTYankee]

Here's part of a article printed on Oct 19.
same guy.

Angelo Pizzuti ran his right index finger over his son's name.
That was the boy he told to be patriotic. That was the boy whose youth baseball team he coached.
"One day, he came downstairs and said 'Well, I joined," Pizzuti said.
Dad couldn't believe his son was in the Army. The elder Pizzuti had fought the Germans at Normandy and once took shrapnel through his left palm. He knew what his son was getting into.
John Pizzuti was 19 on Dec. 11, 1968, the day he was ambushed in a Vietnamese jungle. He took a bullet from close range to the back of his neck.

Inside a little wallet, Pizzuti carries pictures of his grandchildren and a folded copy of an old Detroit News article. It starts:

A young St. Clair Shore soldier who passed up a college scholarship in order to get his time in the service completed is the Detroit area's latest casualty of the Vietnam war.
The boy in the picture looks like a younger version of the man holding the article.
"He was a good-looking boy," said Pizzuti, 79, of New Port Richey. "I must say that."

For 10 minutes on Friday, Pizzuti visited the wall. He didn't talk -- that's not his style, he said -- he just pondered.
Pizzuti said, "I thought to myself, 'What would he have been?' "

[MinuteGal]

I just talked to Angelo's wife. He is being inundated with phone calls from around the country. A call also came in to him from CBS for an interview.

The family is from Michigan where he was Commander of the Purple Heart and Commander of the DVA (Disabled Vets of America). So, this 80-year-old gutsy guy was (and still is) in service to our country. God bless him!

They don't have internet, so she's going to have a friend contact me by email and I'll send a link to this thread so it can be printed out and shown to him.

Freepers, show your feelings and appreciation to this outstanding American veteran, Angelo, with your comments on this thread.

God bless our WW2 veterans who are still fighting for the right!

Leni

[JavaJumpy]

Oh wow, I have goosebumps!! Thank you for posting!

[GOPJ]

bump

[thisiskubrick]

In related news, the great-grandson of French officer who aided American soldiers during their rebellion against the British returned his medal as well.