I'm not going to take the time to copy all of the pictures into this email, so I will just describe them as they come up. The real thing that pissed me off came at the end anyway (not that the typical annoying email chain letter rhetoric didn't annoy me plenty).
Subject: Fw: FRANCE - Now I am Understanding the Anger!!!
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I was 7 when WWll started, and 11 when it ended. I guess that's an age when things make a big impression on you that last a lifetime, but I know I've never forgotten the images and stories. The thing is, those of us who lived through it are getting older, and won't be around forever, so I'm sending this to all my kids to remind them it's up to them to keep the memories alive, and never forget the rows and rows of white crosses.
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...young people also need to realize that each of those white crosses represents a young person that died who had dreams of growing up and basking in the freedoms of America, which we now take for granted without a thought, and they were such good and brave Americans who eagerly fought to help others. Young people need to never forget and to be stand-up citizens of and for America.....there but for the grace of God go we ...
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Trying to understand this issue with the French government!
I have to admit that I didn't fully understand the anger at the French and I was preoccupied with the many prayer needs. But now I am heart broken and may never buy another French product.
There are ELEVEN American Cemeteries in France
Maintained by the US Government
Honoring 66,033 Americans Killed Fighting for the French
Here are some photos that are worth a thousand words.
What follows here are a bunch of pictures of cemetaries in France from World War II, you know the ones that are fields of white crosses. Each picture gives the name of the cemetary and the number of American soldiers buried there.
Okay, so far, I've got no MAJOR problems here. I disagreed with the war (though I am glad to see Hussein gone), I disagree with all this anti-French sentiment (aside from those of us who already bore an anti-French sentiment that had nothing to do with this war on Iraq
). I mean, the whole thing is annoying, but hey, if people want to say this kind of stuff I can try to ignore it.
66,033 Americans are Buried or Missing in France.
Many thousands more died fighting for France
but are buried and honored here in the US.
Thanks France
Now the picture that followed right here is so absolutely "WHAT THE FUCK??" that I had to post it. A mere description just wouldn't have done it justice.
For the first time, AMERICA was seeking help from France. . .
but France turned her back!!!
Please remember these Dead Americans , when you go shopping as the French seem to have forgotten them.
All American and proud
THIS is the part I have a major problem with, right at the very end. What in the FUCK does SHOPPING have to do with remembering dead soldiers???? (Nevermind the fact that this is NOT the first time we have seeked help from the French)
Now the problem is that I got this email from my grandmother, and she just LOVES to forward any kind of shit that comes her way, no matter what it is. And it is very, VERY difficult for me to hold back and NOT go off on her for sending this email. Or not necessarily go off on her, but go off on the email itself. But you know, it's my grandmother. I can't just send her an angry rant.
So I did the only thing I could, I replied back to the huge list of people she sent it to and asked what exactly shopping had to do with remembering a bunch of dead American soldiers.
I just had to vent and share the stupidity of this email, and since I can't really express myself as freely as I'd like when replying to her, I'm putting this shit here. Enjoy.