XPost: alt.france
From: oblivion@somewhere.com

And I suppose Poland and Czechoslovakia should thank Russia too?
"Jan"  wrote in message
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> "rumpelstilskin"  wrote in message
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>> what questions you say.....these questions :
>>
>> Who is willing to
>> go on record and say thank you or that it was good that the US helped out
>> England to send the nazis back to germany?     The atlantic beaches
>> turned
>> red with american blood.  How many americans have not been given the
>> chance
>> to be born because their grandfathers died there?  My father did not have
>> to
>> go and fight because my mother was handicapped.   they even came to the
>> house to check.  I really wanted to know whether the french cared one way
>> or
>> the other.
>
> In freeing Europe France lost 340.000 soldiers, US lost 160.000 soildiers.
> Thank you France!
> Sovjet lost 13.000.000 soldiers, so if anybody should pop up on this NG
> every day and ask us to be grateful it should be the Russians.
>
>> as far as the french helping during the revolutionary war here; how much
>> of
>> this help was because you wanted to piss off britian?
>>
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