Posted on 05/18/2014 1:14:39 PM PDT by SJackson
Seven decades after Allied troops stormed Normandy’s beaches and saved France from the Nazis, the surrender-happy nation is turning its back on hundreds of US veterans who want to return next month to mark the invasion’s 70th anniversary.
France has broken its promise to pay for the vets to fly to this year’s commemoration, according to Rep. Michael Grimm.
“Our chief-of-staff heard it from the French Embassy in DC — that they would be flown out to France [for free],” said Nick Iacono, a spokesman for the Staten Island congressman.
But when The Post contacted the embassy Friday, the French turned up their noses as if smelling rotten Camembert.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
What is one to expect from a bunch of cheese-eaters who pour 55-gallon drums of perfume into their subways because the people over there rarely bathe?
The offer to fly the U.S. vets to France was made, and then withdrawn. That’s a present day decision made by an official in the current French government.
We have the right to know who in France made that decision, and does the office of the French president approve. Our embassy should be demanding to know, right now.
It is a slightly more complete article, however Fox News, like all other MSM, gets everything backwards and couldn’t give a crap. The (29th Division)116th landed at H-Hour on D-Day. The 115th followed later. To the young Fox writer it’s all meaningless anyway....115th, 116th...what’s the difference? Of course it was actually a BIG difference. But “details” mean nothing to today’s MSM......just another depressing “sign of our times”.
next war, we’ll stand back, and let the Germans deal with the French, and their Muslim imports, by themselves.
Said about the French Army, it’s hard to engage the advancing enemy where you are running in the same direction.
I'm sure he could persuade Reggie to tag along even if Moochelle decides she would rather do something else. Or maybe she could turn it into another $10 million dollar vacation for herself and 500 or so of her closest friends and relatives and really make us proud!
The French may have a point. Would their country now be transitioning to Islam had they lost WW2? I think not.
The French didn’t help much at all during our revolution. It was mainly the Germans and Poles that actually did the work. You don’t think those weasely French were good for anything even back then, do you? Ok, Lafayette, but he’s the only good one.
Screw France?
I was their for the 50th anniversary, and I have to tell you that it was the biggest pro-American display of love and friendship I have ever seen outside the US.
Having been there over 50 times, most of the people appreciate us, and most of their youth would love to live here.
Their pro-family marches draw larger crowds than we do, which puts our couch potatoes to shame.
They have a lot wrong, as we do. This ain’t the country our greatest generation fought for, I will tell you that.
“Does Obammy plan to not show up like all the other times? Or does he have an important golf date that weekend that will prevent him from going again? After all, Dude, that was seventy years ago!”
We as a nation will be better off if Obama and Kerry stay home and the veterans who do make the trip represent this nation. Neither Obama nor Kerry care about American exceptionalism, the historical accomplishments of the American people, or veterans. They are narcissistic political leeches who are only concerned about themselves and their socialist agenda. Be happy if they stay at home. If they go the media will fawn over them instead of the people who fought and died there.
“They going surrender to Islam.....”
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Have you seen how many mosques have been and are being built in the USA?
We should’ve learned from France what it is like to surrender to Islam but we’re just as stupid as they are.
Even more so.
>>This ain’t the country our greatest generation fought for, I will tell you that.<<
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Sadly enough, you’re sooooooo right.
You can thank LBJ for it.
um. ... In fact the French fleet kept Cornwallis from escaping Yorktown. So ya. like it or not the French played a big role in our freedom. That doesn't excuse what going on now but lets give credit where its due.
France: Demands help when needed. Go away when not.
I don’t know about the whole of France, but if you travel to the small towns on the Normandy coast, there are still plenty there who remember and if you are American or Brit will buy you a drink, even if you are two or thee generations removed from the soldiers who fought on the beaches.
Now is a good time to go and meet the French people who do remember and who are very grateful. Those who remember will soon die off, as will those brave soldiers. And then it will be only something recorded in history books, not in the hearts of living people.
My husband and I just took a river cruise to the Beaches at Normandy. It was an incredibly moving experience. We had a young French woman give us a short narrative on everything we would see and then we had a ceremony to honor the souls who are buried in the cemetery. This young woman was very emotional and had all of our fellow cruisers in tears. It was an experience that will stay with us forever. When you see what this country was able to accomplish it is awe inspiring. As my husband said “they were able to accomplish this in less time than the Obama administration could build a failed website”.
They were wiped out almost to a man in the big battles. The cowards, the unfit, and the few survivors bred the next generation. That's the problem.
February 10, 2003 -- COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - They stand only 3 feet high, but they're towering mountains of sacrifice. I'm standing in the American Cemetery. Gray clouds hang low as if in mourning for the nearly 10,000 young Americans buried beneath crosses and Stars of David that stretch as far as the eye can see.
The air is chill, but I feel an unnatural glow of rage - I want to kick the collective butts of France. These kids died to save the French from a tyrant named Adolf Hitler. And now, as more American kids are poised to fight and die to save the world from an equally vile tyrant, Saddam Hussein, where are the French? Hiding.
Chickening out. Proclaiming, Vive les wimps! The French, amazingly, never learned the lesson of what happens to appeasers. They may not remember - but Caroline Buck does. "When I look at these graves, it makes me want to cry," Buck, who lives in San Antonio, told me as she dabbed her eyes with a handkerchief. "My father joined the Merchant Marines during WWII at the age of 17. Those soldiers out there under that ground were just kids. They were here to save France, and if it wasn't for them, the French might have ended up speaking German," she said.
Well, what do you know. They're now speaking the same anti-war language as the Germans - in a European chorus of cowards. Buck's husband, Ron, an engineer, remembered his father flying over France against the Germans in planes nicknamed "The Black Widows" because they flew at night. "I think this whole anti-American thing is sad," he said. "I don't know whether it's television or an older generation dying out, but after our soldiers did so much for France, well, look at these graves.
Surely they remember." Sorry. They don't. I read these names with tears in my eyes and fury in my heart: "Walter F. Rober, Pvt., 358 Inf., 90 Div., New York, July 13, 1944; Angelo Cauca, Pvt., 8 Inf., 4 Div., New Jersey, June 21, 1944; John Hernandez, Pvt., 8 Inf., 4 Div., Nebraska, June 23, 1944." These names mean nothing to the French, 91 percent of whom, according to a poll, are against President Bush's plans to make Saddam a dark mark in history. But then again, the French are against everything, including that curious American habit of showering every day.
But wait a minute. It seems our brave allies are now putting all their French toast in one basket. They have a 12,000-man contingent training, they say. And it's equipped with one - count it - one amphibious-assault vessel.
Give me a break. I know some veterans who would say that if the French are in training, they are training to throw up their arms in surrender. B. Rice Aston, from Houston, the president-general of the Sons of the American Revolution, was visiting here with fellow members.
As he approached the monument in the cemetery, he said: "Remember what Henry Kissinger said. The French are prickly. If you're at the top of the ladder, they sometimes want to shake it for you to fall off." You walk another hundred yards near hallowed turf: "George Uttering, Pvt., 12 Inf., 4 Div., New York, June 7, 1944; Ramond Carey, 2 Lt., 319, 82 Airborne, New York, July 4, 1944; Ercal W. Netzer, Pfc., 22 Inf., West Virginia, June 7, 1944." As the sun tries to peek through those mourning clouds, I meet Jessica Silverman, a student from George Washington University, studying here in France.
As a college student, she never has been gung-ho for any war. But Jessica, of Maine, told me, "Nothing has happened to me, but we have been told something that is a little disturbing. "We have been told that if we face any kind of a threat, we should say we're Canadians, not Americans." Now isn't that just fine, Americans in France having to pretend they're not Americans.
If they had done that in 1944, the French would have replaced "La Marseillaise" with the Nazi anthem, "Deutchland Uber Alles." It chills the bone when the French government and so many of its citizens steadfastly try to undermine Bush, even sneer at him, when so many of them were saved by the nation he leads - with the greatest band of brothers on earth.
In his excellent book “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich ch, Shirer also made the point that when Germany sent armies into Czechoslovakia after the Munich conference, Germany had five divisions on its border with France. France had 150 divisions. He observed that if the French armies had moved quickly and invaded Germany for treaty violations it would have ended Germany’s invasion of Czechoslovakia and ended Hitler.
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