D-Day

The French bloody quickly disowned the US, though...

Anyway, as I say- not appropriate to bring politics into it.

Originally posted by G.P
D-Day, yes, well...every year we've got the same old song...but obviously we don't have the heads of the 4 or 5 most powerful nations in the world over here every year...

What a terrific question. I had hoped some would be more intelligent than that, and not bring up the whole "We freed you during WWII. And now how dare you disagree with us on the 2nd Gulf War ?" Well, to start with I'd say that Louis XVI send some soldiers before 1780 in what is now called the US. Men like Lafayette were quite useful, as far as I remember. Plus the French fleet helped (Yorktown). And there was in 1783 a Versailles treaty...you really have a short memory...

And yes we gave you the Statue of Liberty, and what's more yours is bigger than ours 😉

And that doen't mean we're not grateful for the US intervention in 1944.

my statement was more of a sarcastic one. I wasn't trying to imply that France was being evil.
avoiding politics

you could have guessed that such bold comment (and I didn't thought it was sarcastic, and I doubt GP does either) would result in such a comment

I was think of what France did post ww2. Anyway, I recant my statement. Sorry if I offended anyone.

well, they exported cheese... lots of cheese 😉

and wine...and foie gras...and meet and... yummy !
I'm not offended. The sarcasm was unclear...that's the pb of a forum...next time when you put such comments, be sure everyone get the spirit of it 😉

Of course, avoiding politics.

I like cheese. Chedder cheese, though

so, ummm, has anyone visisted Normandy or know someone who fought at d-day?

I'm meeting veterans tomorrow 😄

I could go for some cheese and wine now 🙁

visited Normandy, don't know people who fought there, but if you keep it local to your own country, then I know some 😄

Tomorrow, some Veterans are going to visit 'my' school, and I think... that some of them are going to talk about their experiences, maybe one of them was in Omaha.

if they're American, some should have been there 😉

I wanna visit the Netherlands 😱

All of them are Americans

you're bound to find one then 😉

Originally posted by yerssot
to Europe as a whole? wouldn't really say that... you could count Napoleon... and of course local history showed some other dark pages of the thick history book too 🙁

Actually, Napoleon, asside from the 'conquer the world' type drive, was far from hitler. The one thing all the great names in history did have in common though is Charisma.. and lots of it..

I was more refering to the "conquer Europe"-part

They were all also great public speakers ✅

Anyone watching History Channel, D-Day Lost Evidence..cause it just basically proved me right.

yea my bro watched a show on dat last night...wats it bout?? war??

Originally posted by Bagtatta
Anyone watching History Channel, D-Day Lost Evidence..cause it just basically proved me right.

prove what point?