Bring Home Our Fallen Soldiers

me | 2/14/2003 | me

[mabelkitty]

The only organization that I know of that cares for the gravesites of veterans are the Daughters of the American Revolution.

[A2J]

The people of France are not anti-American, the communists and marxists of France are.

Then it sounds like they need another French Revolution to rid the country of that trash.

[nothingnew]

Tom DeLay was having a discussion with a Frenchman. They couldn't agree. Tom stopped talking and then said, "do you speak German". The Frenchman said, "no?"

Tom said, "Thank you very much! You're welcome" and walked away!!

FMCDH

[A2J]

Those soldiers fought and died for that land

I'm not so sure about that.

American soldiers fought for freedom, the absence of which anywhere in the world threatens that which we enjoy at home. So, in essence, the American soldiers fought for America. The frontline of that war against freedom just happened to be in France.

If leaving the bodies of our heroes in France does nothing else but remind them of the terrible cost of freedom, I say leave them there. If not, let's bring them home.

[A2J]

Actually DeLay said "You're welcome!" which has a much more powerful impact.

[Movemout]

I know that of which you speak. I have visited several cemetaries of US soldiers in France. The meticulous care of the graves is amazing. I swear they must comb the grass.

I have also visted the gravesites in Belgium. I spent three years co-located with SHAPE and have shopped regularly at Chievres. They have honored our fallen soldiers well. When I used to go up to Holland to visit the Keukenhof every spring, I seldom had to buy a beer. The Dutch wouldn't allow it. The sons and daughters of those we liberated remembered their parents' tales of our bareve soldiers.

[glock rocks]

Just who elected them? The so-called French people!

well, so in the same vein, are you blaming Jim Robinson for red davis being the guverner of kalifornya?

[AntiGuv]

In the course of fighting for the American cause of freedom and justice, those soldiers fought and died for that land - as well as for the peoples and values of Western civilization. Their 'thin red lines' were on the beaches, the fields, and the forests of France, where they should rest in peace in that land which they fought to liberate. Cheers.

[Non-Sequitur]

So where does DeLay get off taking credit for the sacrifices of men and women who actually served in the military and who paid the ultimate price?

[nina0113]

Is THAT the story behind those perfectly-tended graves?

I know the citizens of Normandy & Brittany remember & appreciate American sacrifices on their behalf. I was given many free glasses of wine in that region just for being an American.

The Parisians, of course, are another story; though in fairness, the Louvre museum cop who pulled me off balance, causing me to fall down the marble stairs, did ask if I was hurt. And another cop saw me studying my map and asked if I was lost.

[CyberAnt]

Thanks!! and ... you're right!

[thinktwice]

Look at that which American socialists, marxists, special interest lobbies (and foreign nations such as China) elected President -- TWICE -- Bill Clinton.

France and Germany has the same problem America has -- brainwashed people voting for socialists.

[Thorondir]

Gads! I had not even thought of that. The sweet practitioners of the Religion of Peace turned Jewish graves into a latrine and routinely destroy or desecrate every Christian or Jewish place of worship they get their filthy hands on.

What will they do to Notre Dame Cathedral? And what will they do to the sacred graves of our American fallen? We need to pull our heroes home before Eurabia falls into their seventh-century hands.

[Between the Lines]

[mabelkitty]

He's the majority whip. I think a Congressman has some clout, no?

[glock rocks]

thank you. God bless our fallen heroes.

[passionfruit]

I believe that those brave men are rolling in their graves right now. I say lets bring them home with great fanfare and create a special cemetary for them where they can rest with honor and dignity.

[and the horse you rode in on]

I agree, bring em' back.

They are home. That soil is sovereign US Territory, just like an embasy. It is surrounded by France, but it is not legally part of France.

[Inspectorette]

So beautiful, yet so heartwrenching - thank you.