On Aug 13, 2006 03:52am, j.murphy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote to All:
> Fred Burgess wrote:
>> On Jul 08, 2006 01:53pm, j.murphy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote to All:
>>
>>
>>>> Sorry- I hadn't reckoned on the French attitude toward history. My
>>>> mistake.
>>
>>> As I say, we know it but it has no bearing on our lives or even on
>>> our history, other than that we saved your bacon at Yorktown and
>>> gave you the Statue of Liberty. Our attitude towards history is good
>>> enough to know that the declaration of independence is dated 4th
>>> July 1776. If you had known that the fall of the Bastille, the
>>> official date for the beginning of the French revolution was on the
>>> 14th July 1789 you would be in a position to criticise, as it is,
>>> you are not.
>>
>> Well, I guess you French folks forgot that it was the US and England
>> that saved your bacon during WWI and WWII ...
> The USA turned up two months before the end of WWI and played no useful
> part. In WWII they were just a part of the Allies. If anyone caused the
> downfall of the Nazi regime it was the Soviet Union.
>> When you ran away and crying,
> The French lost more soldiers in WWII than the entire United States
> army. If anyone ran it was the British who abandoned the French at
> Dunkirk and left them to their fate.
> Don't take your propaganda and dreams for reality.
Nuh huh ... and you really need to wake up. Oh well ... But I do have to
agree with you about the British .. they are a bunch yankers :D
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