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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: TimF who wrote (62467)9/14/2007 10:46:41 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
My wife and I used to picnic under the very sycamore tree that Lafayette sat under during the Battle of Brandywine. There was a cannon there with a sign declaring that Lafayette himself had confirmed as one used at that battle, some years after the revolution.

Tocqueville could see clearly what modern day Frenchmen seem oblivious to.

When I visited a logging site in New York during the 1960s, the French Canadian loggers cut more cordwood on their lunch hour than the Americans did all morning. They were the best sawyers I've ever seen.

French Canadian Voyageurs and trappers opened up the west before Lewis and Clark, even.

Then there's always Frederic Bartholdi, the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

I just wish France would stand up to these giants.

But it doesn't.
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