From: Arthur Bloom (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sun Feb 12 2006 - 12:11:07 PST
I must have stumbled upon a thread of April Fool's Day messages. There's no
apb
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| ah TJ
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way I could believe that the French are boorish, obnoxious, or unthankful.
Shame on you all!
From: "Convoy Magazine" <convoymagazine@yahoo.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2006 3:06 PM
Subject: [MV] la France oublie! Encore!
| but perhaps you will also remember how just a few
| years ago, French poltiticians forgot the
| international and historic significance of the area to
| the west of Paris.. and how they wanted to pave over
| the sites of some of the most famous WWI battlefields
| to make way for a new airport to serve Paris..
|
| and IF i remember correctly it was economic factors
| that put the project to rest and not really the
| massive condemnation from other countries.
|
| Nige remember this? please refresh our memeories and
| provide some more details of another example of that
| "French Charm"...
|
| BTW- for our american friends, during D-Day +50,
| several Canadian vets who had booked hotel rooms long
| in advance of this historic occassion were
| unceremoniously told just a couple weeks before their
| flight, that their rooms were being taken over by
| "officials" who wanted to attend. These men who had
| sacrificied so much to save this "Foreign" country
| (which could not save itself) were clearly told they
| were SOL! "Please accept our apoliogies but you see
| our hands are tied..zees politicians are obviously so
| much more important than you...now please go away and
| bother us no further.."
| A huge outccry resulted, which involved some elbowing
| by the Cdn government (only after they themselves had
| been pushed by the public!) to get the French to back
| down and give the veterans back they pre-booked rooms!
| sheesh, and that's why I don't buy French wine..
|
| cheers
| Monty
|
| --- timothy.smith1@att.net wrote:
|
| > I should rephrase. Sometimes I think some of the
| > people of Europe would like nothing better than to
| > erase from their social consciousness the memory of
| > the sacrifices others made to help them stay free.
| >
| > There. That's a bit better.
| >
| > TJ
| >
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| > From: timothy.smith1@att.net
| > To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List"
| > <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
| > Subject: [MV] France forgets
| > Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 16:32:21 +0000
| > > Sometimes I think some (not all) of the people of
| > Europe (particularly the
| > > French) would like nothing better than to erase
| > the memory of the sacrifices
| > > others made to help them stay free from their
| > social consciousness....and
| > > they're starting with all those Historic Military
| > Vehicles. Which French
| > > political hacks are pushing this and what are
| > their political backgrounds?
| > >
| > > Next thing you know, we'll be asked to remove our
| > honored dead from European
| > > soil.
| > >
| > > TJ
| > >
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