Scott wrote:
I guess we owe the French. They still seem ****ed about us coming over
in the 1940s to "help" them out. Now they're returning the favor...


There's a difference in the minds of the French. On very rare
occasions there has been vandalism to U.S. cemeteries in France. The
French of all generations react with extreme negativity and the
perpetrators are in for a rough time. The French make a distinction
between those who liberated them and those in power now.

The French know far more about U.S. assistance during and after WW1
and WW2 than Americans know about how big a role the French played
during the American Revolution.

I have no great love for France of today, but they did save our butts
in the 1700s. In case you are wondering why I make such a distinction
myself I will give you one example. During WW2 the French ran a
concentration camp for the Nazis. It was called Drancy. There is no
monument to those who suffered there, just an apartment complex. France,
as a nation, chose not to face their complicity in the crimes of the Nazis.

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired