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'nothing is to be believed until it is officially denied.' ** Americans have no history. Probably just as well. The French, on the other hand, have too much. Practically every street in Paris reminds them of a slaughter somewhere. Upon the Arc de Triomphe, Les Invalides, and dozens of other piles of stone, the names of towns in Germany, Spain, Italy, Poland, Russia... or North Africa... are inscribed. Each one marks the deaths of thousands of French soldiers - gone early to their graves for who-remembers-what important national purpose. Every town in France, even the most remote and forlorn little burg, has at its center a pillar of granite or marble - with the names of the men whose bodies were torn to bit by flying lead or corroded by some battlefield disease. A whole race of orphans grew up after WWI... and special seats on the subway were designated for those "mutilated in war" including thousands of "sans gueules" - men who had had their jaws blown away and yet survived, too horrible to look upon. The French have had enough of war - at least for now. Let them enjoy a well-earned cowardice. We will get our chance. | ||||||||||||||
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