Much as I ridicule the French (deservedly so), there is the occasional one or two Frenchmen that fought in the resistance, joined the French Foreign Legion or displayed some semblance of independent thought and manliness that would make you say, "you know, I would trust to have this Frenchman in my platoon if I were in Vietnam. Dien Bien Phu and all that aside, I'd still trust them."
And this guy is one such person.
Only problem is I don't speak French. But on the birth of my nation, that would not exist without the support of the French (an accursed historical fact I wish could be purged from the history books), I think we owe it to our French brothers who didn't capitulate to Vichy and were of the caliber that fought for America's freedom (or at least hated the Brits enough to do so) a little hat tip on this 4th of July.
Not that this means there will be end to the French jokes and mockery, just so you know! They shall forever be cheese-eating-surrender-monkeys.
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Hey, your French boy is actually from Switzerland. Just so you know, the Swiss have nothing to do with the Statue of Liberte!
The Good French: Bastiat (translated) - http://bastiat.org/en/the_law.html
The Bad French: "Our Oldest Enemy" Miller and Molesky. On French help in our struggle for Independence, "While French aid was a tremendous help, especially at Yorktown, much of it was also grudging, sporadic, and undercut by the incompetence and vanity of French Commanders".
I highly recommend chapter 3...
Don't forget Capt. that the French would have helped anyone at the time. All they wanted to do was bust Britain's Chops. Good blog.
The "French" that were of such assistance in our revolution are the very ones that were massacred in the French Revolution.
The French we have now eradicated the French we're indebted to.
The French gave the world Frederic Bastiat and Jean Baptiste Say. I think that's more than their quota of awesome individuals, even if the vast majority of Frenchmen born in the last 80 years have been milquetoast socialist pussies.
By the way, the French cared about us during our revolution about as much as the we cared about the Mujahideen when they were fighting the Soviets, and for pretty much the same reasons.
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