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I had to skim through the posts so dodn't know if anybody made this point - wouldn't a transatlantic flight from Europe to LA have a similar amount of fuel as it entered US airspace as a transcontinental flight from NY to LA, which is what the 9/11 flights were like? (adjsuting, of course, for the flight path which wouldn't bring it over NY but may bring it in closer to Chicago).

While I am no fan of recent French politics, when I visited Normandy in April 1998 with my then-12 and 10 year old daughters, it was moving for me and for them to visit a small British cemetary about 5 miles south of Bayeux - in a corner of a farmer's field, with about 60 British graves and one free Czech soldier, all died about June 10 1944 - the grounds were immaculate and each grave had a recently-placed bouquet of paper flowers, obviously made by school kids, with "Merci" written on them - someone was teaching those kids something right. That wasn't in June on a D-day anniversary, so don't know what the occasion was. Also, the friendliness of the people towards my family and the signs in shops - not just tourist shops - written in part in English with American and British flags, "We Welcome our Liberators."