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Good read.
I find it hilarious that a Frenchman complains about Americans speaking English so badly he cannot understand it, after watching Parisians making fun of Americans who tried to speak French with them.
We bailed them out in WW I and WW II. In WW I they fought relatively well, but in WW II, they fell like a house of cards. Southeast Asia was not one of their highlights either, but we had our own struggles there.
Private MacKall, who Camp MacKall was named for, was killed by the French in North Africa.
They saved our chestnuts in the Revolutionary War. It was the French Navy that prevented the Brits from evacuating Yorktown in good order and fighting us another day elsewhere.
I had a French officer in a course with me. He and the Israeli competed for most arrogant.
I guess there are good and bad, like all of us.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
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