To: Harmless Teddy Bear
"In 400 years they show no signs of improvement."
la Legion was respectable.....mostly foreigners, though. Haven't heard a thing about it for years.....since 1976 or 77, when they pulled some expats out of Zaire when the Katangese rebels returned from Angola.
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
"la Legion was respectable.....mostly foreigners, though. "
The Legion was, IIRC, also the unit that fought at Dien Bien Phu. I've read that most of the soldiers who died there were former Nazi SS troopers, too. Somehow, I don't think we can attribute their steadfast defense of a hopeless post to the French, even if they did have at least a few French officers.
140 posted on
07/30/2006 7:12:56 AM PDT by
Old Student
(WRM, MSgt, USAF(Ret.))
To: Vn_survivor_67-68
By "respectable" I suppose you mean former SS torturing Vietnamese for sport, right? And then doing comically stupid things and losing and running away and handing the other half of the war over to us...
156 posted on
07/30/2006 4:50:25 PM PDT by
JasonC
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