Posted on 08/22/2015 12:59:38 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
French actor Jean-Hugues Anglade, whose finger was injured "to the bone" as he broke the emergency alarm glass, told the magazine Paris-Match that passengers thought they were going to die "because we were prisoners of this train." Anglade said he, his two children and companion were in the last car, No. 11, one car away from No. 12 where the gunman was tackled and subdued.
He said, "We heard passengers shouting in English, `He's firing, he's firing. He has a Kalashnikov.'" He said he saw train personnel running down the corridor to take refuge in their work car, and claimed they locked the door and refused to answer desperate knocks.
Then Anthony Sadler, one of the three Americans traveling together, came into their car and said the gunman had been subdued.
"We were in a bad spot but with good people," Anglade said. "We were incredibly lucky to have American soldiers with us. I pay homage to their heroic courage and thank them. Without them, we all would be dead."
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Once again Americans pay back France for their help in the Revolutionary War! Good to see a Frenchman say Thanks!
Meanwhile 0bama is trying to figure out how he can take credit for this or get some face time - then come out also to say it’s not Islam but a deranged person acting alone.
“...he saw train personnel running down the corridor to take refuge in their work car, and claimed they locked the door and refused to answer desperate knocks.”
Q: How many Frenchmen does it take to defend Paris?
A: No one knows, it’s never been tried.
"We were incredibly lucky to have American soldiers with us. I pay homage to their heroic courage and thank them. Without them, we all would be dead."
And yet they hate Americans.
” Good to see a Frenchman say Thanks!”
But not so good to see French Trade Unionists run for cover! What a bunch of candyassed girlymen.
They should get France’s highest medal of honor.
In heaven, there would be English police, French cooks, and German mechanics.
In hell, there would be English cooks, French mechanics, and German police.
Train company employees show the Spirit of 1940 lives on in France.
What’s the old joke about the French Army having a used rifle sale? Never fired...only dropped once.
Bernard Cazeneuve, France’s interior minister paid tribute to the American servicemen, saying: “Thanks to them we have averted a drama.” He said they were "particularly courageous and showed extreme bravery in extremely difficult circumstances. Without their sangfroid we could have been confronted with a terrible drama."
Contrast with Obama's oddly tentative statement: "While the investigation into the attack is in its early stages, it is clear that their heroic actions may have prevented a far worse tragedy."
Thanks for pointing that out.
“...drama...” What an idiot!
it is an acceptable description of the situation.
probably better would be trauma, tragedy.
things get lost in translation.
(i had to look up sangfroid)
I’ll have to think about that.
Maybe Obama can send James Taylor over there to sing to the passengers.
“its never been tried”
That’s freaking idiotic and a slander. They only lost about 360,000 dead and wounded in that 6 week battle. They inflicted about 150,000 dead and wounded on the Germans.
To put that in perspective, that 360,000 in 6 weeks is almost exactly the number of dead and wounded we suffered in Vietnam spread over a decade.
And the Brits who held the left flank? They did the sir Galahad routine and fled the battlefield.
A smart maneuver strategically, but still the Brits surrendered. At Singapore they surrendered to a Japanese force one third their size. Do we hear about tea drinking surrender monkeys?
Or maybe you mean WWI where the French took more dead than the Brits by far. Yet all we hear of is Flanders fields, 800,000 poppies, etc etc.
The French fought damn hard, and always have.
So true
You do know, the dude was in the next car back from the attack.
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