Posted on 06/12/2008 11:14:54 PM PDT by jakerobins
The names “Thomas and Dorothy” were carved in the bark of one trunk. Another said “Bob and Carma”. Other trees were marked with soldiers’ home states - Iowa, Maine or Alabama - and several bore hearts and the names or initials of a wife or girlfriend.
The beech trees of Saint Pierre de Varengeville-Duclair forest bore a poignant testimony to the D-Day landings for more than six decades. Thousands of American soldiers stationed there after the liberation of Normandy spent their spare hours with a knife or bayonet creating a lasting reminder of their presence.
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Seems most french people are upset by this. And since it’s their land and their battle I don’t know that I have a say in it. I know I don’t like it when people from foreign countries tell me what I “have” to do.
I would like to see the conundrum this would create for peacenik tree-huggers were these trees here. Would they try to save these trees...or let them be cut down since they are remembrances from war?
I guess it’s a bit late to get upset about this: the damage is mostly done, and those trees that remain appear set to be preserved.
Technically, it’s “tagging” — historically interesting tagging, but art it probably ain’t.
Trim those trees or else! It’s interfering with our public road...
Can’t say I blame the property owner.. He took the option he could personally better afford.
It’s more significant to preserve the American cemetery of Americans who fought for the frogs...I mean, France, but the article “seems” sympathetic to preserving the trees though.
Of course, ze Fwench dont care about the American aspect of it, they just care about the “history” of the trees...
...and how they were not able to stop the Nazis in marching through the Champs Elysee.
Americans don’t have a say in this fight. It is not our land and I would be pissed if they came over and told us what to do with our land. Let them have it. The only thing I want to have with France is an occasional trip to Paris and the Southern Frence Riviara and that is it. And quite frankly I have only visited the country twice...once in 1994 and another time in 2007.
The peacenik tree-huggers would demand the soldiers be charged with hate crimes against nature.
American to Frenchman: "Sprechenze Deutsch?
Frenchman to American: "Non!"
American to Frenchman: "You're welcome!
TWO:
That said, I am entirely in favor of this isolationist move. We should encourage the French need to be left alone, and when we next save the world from the Muslims, we should stay the hell out of France. I mean, with their impressive military history, they should be able to handle a couple of million angry Muslims armed with dirty bombs, right?
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