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To: oldtech
The figures I saw showed almost 9400 American soldiers buried in France. Compare that with the number of French soldiers buried here.

Honestly, we should quietly begin exhuming our war dead remains and bring them all home, beginning with the men buried in the Normandy cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer. From there, extend the effort out to smaller WWII burial places and the ones from WWI as well.

Not because the French are offending our profound sacrifice - again, but because they have chosen a cultural path that is certain to lead to those graves being desecrated.

25 posted on 09/13/2018 12:42:42 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Charles Martel

The American cemeteries are under control of the United States. WE cut the grass and tend the graves. The land has been given to America in perpetuity by the French so our servicemen lie in American soil. The responsibility is ALL ours. Have you visited the WW I AND WW II cemeteries? I have! I’ve even visited our fallen in Belgium, Luxembourg and elsewhere.
If you had ever seen the thousands of French schoolchildren carrying bouquets to place on American graves, you would not be so dismissive of where they rest in peace.


54 posted on 09/13/2018 2:43:16 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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