Posted on 03/03/2005 2:25:44 PM PST by Jinjelsnaps
Oh well... bookmarking for check-back.
On the other hand, they did mutiny in April of 1917. But when you consider 800,000 Allied dead for '14-'18, perhaps one can take just so much and no more.
I do think that these mutinies began the downfall of the French military.
Military Ping!
HUH?
Alas, the page has apparently been taken down now. Link results in a 404.
Great link. Will check back later.
Oh, I certainly love bashing Bush. Been bashing Bush for years. Feels great!
Do you at least concede how ridiculous you sound, bashing volunteer soldiers as "pansies" while draping your FR profile with adoring photos of Bush (who avoided Vietnam) in his photo-op flight suit?
Dan Rather, is that you?
I see you're forced to change the subject from Bush with an old Rather joke, proving that you can't counter the sad truth about Bush. It must be tough worshipping such an empty shell.
: ^ )
They were competent, tough, brave -- comparable to the soldiers of Napoleon's Grand Army.
They almost all were killed in the early years of the war. They were young, and most had no children. France was repopulated by the descendants of the unfit and the cowardly.
Selective breeding at work.
Note the presence of Soudanese colonial troops.
Another website shows the Algerians. The French Army was by no means lily-white.
What happened to the French is that their political leaders and incompetent generals got most of their brave young men killed. What was left reproduced, giving you the French of today.
Pity. To a lesser extent, the same thing happened to the British.
Those look like pensioners, probably recalled into a Home Guard type organization.
My great uncle died in France during WWI--he was only 22. When I was little, I used to think the world was in black in white in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. These photos are very interesting. Didn't know they had color way back then. Thanks for sharing.
Just in case it's due to that, and not to invincible ignorance . . .
The "AWOL" accusation has been disproved over and over again. Anybody who served in the Guard or Reserves at the time (including my husband) is familiar with the process of "making up drills" because NG and AR folks also had civilian jobs as a general rule and had to adjust while wearing two hats. My husband made up drills in NJ, MD, NC, and GA.
The NG was not a good place to hide out from overseas service (another squadron from the same TANG unit had been called up earlier), and flying one of the most dangerous aircraft in the fleet is not a job for a coward.
And just FYI, anybody who flies in the Viking has to wear a flight suit for safety reasons (you could have noted, --but are probably too blinded by your prejudices -- that then NSA Rice was wearing one as well).
Thanks for the link and post, I knew they had color pics in World War II but didn't know theyh ad it as far back as World War I. I also remember seeing on the History Channel, "World War I in Color" and I was scratching my head at the color motion pictures. I thought maybe they used computers to colorize the film much like they do with pictures from space probes. My father was a photographer and I currently work in a drugstore developing pictures so I do have an interest in photography.
Their 'winning' that war and it's cost to the German nation set in motion the next world war. The Reparations Cost to Germany was designed to humiliate, denigrate, and shame the German people has a whole: It was not about true reparations. The decisions that were made did not take into the human heart. Most people are willing to accept being responsible for a debt they owe: It's another matter to deliberately doom the next (and next, after that) generation of their children while shaming their parents. Human nature. Good in some ways, bad in others. I'm still angry at the countries that helped set in motion the attacks on us, so I'm probably guilty of bad thoughts towards those countries. Would I want to deliberately set in motion a plan to utterly shame those nations? I'd like to think I wouldn't, but I'd have to ask for the Grace of the Lord if I were honest about it. Sorry for the lecture. (History's not in a vacum.)
But the Bush-AWOL charge is wild speculation at best -- Democrat talking points, nothing more.
neat
If you are talking about the guy in the half cube, that would be my guess.
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