[jalisco555]

His rescue plan includes exhibitions on Living without Petrol and on Father Christmas.

Well, what's a D-Day museum without Father Christmas, after all?

[Lexington Green]

Allied soldiers storm ashore, holding hands, and singing Kumbaya....

[Pessimist]

Sounds about like the initial plans for the ground zero memorial.

[kalee]

Reminds me of the Fawlty Towers episode where Basil kept saying, Don't mention the War.

[Sometimes A River]

Everything a Liberal touches, he taints.

[SF Republican]

There is a nice small museum, basically a large garage about 2 miles back from the Omaha beach; very quite, lots of original "stuff"; also visited a friends friend that had barn that housed American officers and German officer prisoners; it was about 5 miles back from the beach, he had a number of original items and some wood carvings on the timber from the soldiers.

[ariamne]

And I would guess that "Father Christmas" is headed for the dustbin (too Christian?)

[pissant]

The Frecnh really do suck. ROFLMAO

[magslinger]

Really can't say I blame them for downplaying a war that (Vichy)France lost.

[pikachu]

Maybe they should have just installed a section to commemorate the French army of WWII. They need a palce to keep all those white flags, rifles that have been dropped only once, and Renault tanks with 15 speeds (14 reverse).

Cheese eatin' surrender monkies!

[garyhope]

Is there really anything more totally insane than the death wish of political correctness and it's total denial of any reality whatsoever?

It really is a vast left wing conspiracy to destroy Western civilization.

[rrr51]

Is this something new? We were there in Feb. 2005 and didn't see any of this stuff. It was a great museum.

[Caveman Lawyer]

One more reason to thank God that the "International Freedom Center" will not be constructed at Ground Zero (or anyplace else, it's looking like).

[BenLurkin]

[lilylangtree]

Fire Kofi at the UN and hire him as the museum director. Sounds like a job right up his alley given the museum's present direction.

[Pilsner]

I just re-read William Shrier's The Collapse of the Third Republic. In it Shrier, an ardent Fancophile, examines very frankly the failure of the bulk (but not all of course) of the French politicians, French Army and French people to vigorously resist the Nazis once it was apparent they would probabably win. He then quotes a French General who in 1870 advocated defending Paris against the Prussians when final victory was just as unlikely. When it was pointed out to the general that such resistance would destory property and lives and probably prove futile he said A great nation rises from the ashes of its material ruin, but not from its moral ruin.

In WWII the French were morally ruined by their quick collapse and fawning collaboration with Hitler. Had they paid for that collapse and collaberation with a couple of generations of vassalage to the Germans they probably would have learned their lesson and found the moral fiber to stand on their own feet again.

Instead they were rescued by the detested Anglo-Saxon powers. The lesson they learned is that a nation can duck the big issues, can fail to make the hard decisions, and still muddle through in the end. The D-Day museum is a reminder that they muddled through only because someone else faced the big issues, made the hard decisions and saved their sorry butts from their own failure to fight.