From: Dave Ball (vought@msn.com)
Date: Sun Feb 09 2003 - 23:16:30 PST
Always a brides maid never a bride.
Dave
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From: "Steve Grammont" <islander@midmaine.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 09, 2003 8:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] [Fwd: Letter from a Marine in Bosnia:]
> I'd say this is most likely a fake. But it did give me a laugh :-)
>
> Steve
>
> >Felt like sharing this...it's military. Semper Fi!
> >
> >Fred Martin
> >Don't worry bout the mule goin blind....just load the wagon!
> >
> >
> >
> >Dear Dad,
> >
> >A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp
> >Bondsteel (Bosnia):
> >A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and
> >told me he thought we (Americans) were a bunch of
> >cowboys and were going to provoke a war in Iraq.
> >He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able
> >to count on the support of France.
> >
> >I told him that it didn't surprise me.
> >Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I,
> >World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their
> >ingratitude and jealousy was due to surface [again] at
> >
> >some point in the near future anyway.
> >
> >I also told him that is why France is a third-rate
> >military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of
> >pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him that
> >America, being a nation of deeds and action, not
> >words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's
> >support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.
> >
> >Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder
> >85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as
> >evidenced by the fact that this French officer was
> >shopping in the American PX, and not the other way
> >around.
> >
> >He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told
> >him if he would like to, I would meet him outside in
> >front of the Burger King and whip his ass in front of
> >the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus
> >demonstrating that even the smallest American had more
> >fight in him than the average Frenchman.
> >
> >He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a
> >huff.
> >
> >With friends like these, who needs enemies?
> >
> >Dad, tell Mom I love her,
> >
> >Your loving daughter,
> >Mary Beth Johnson
> >LtCol., USMC
> >
> >
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