[Nfbk] Memorial Day
Joey Couch
joey.couch at gmail.com
Mon May 30 17:22:42 UTC 2011
At a time when our president and other politicians tend to apologize
for our country's prior actions,
here's a refresher on how some of our former patriots handled
negative comments about our country.
*JFK'S **
**Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's
when **
***DeGaulle* decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaulle said he wanted
all US **
**military out of France as soon as possible.**
*
*Rusk responded,*
*"Does that include those who are buried here?"**
*
**DeGaulle* **
**did not respond.**
*
*You **
**could have heard a pin drop.*
*When in England,*
*at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the **
**Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an
example of **
**'empire building' by George Bush.**
*
*He answered by saying,*
*"Over the years, the United States has sent many of **
**its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom **
**beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for **
**in return is enough to bury those that did not **
**return."**
*
*You **
**could have heard a pin drop.*
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*There was a conference in France*
*where a number of international engineers **
**were taking part, including French and American. During a break, **
**one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have
you **
**heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft **
**carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he **
**intend to do, bomb them?"**
*
*A Boeing engineer*
*stood up and replied quietly: "Our carriers have three **
**hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are **
**nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to **
**shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to **
**feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several
thousand **
**gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry
half a **
**dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to
and **
**from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships;*
*how many does France have?"**
*
*You **
**could have heard a pin drop.*
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*A U.S. Navy Admiral*
*was attending a naval conference that included **
**Admirals from the U.S., English, Canadian, Australian and French **
**Navies At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a
large **
**group of officers that included personnel from most of those
countries. **
**Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks
but a **
**French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn
many **
**languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, "Why is it
that **
**we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than **
**speaking French?"**
*
*Without hesitating,*
*the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's because the **
**Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you
wouldn't **
**have to speak German."**
*
*You **
**could have heard a pin drop.*
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*AND **
**THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...**
*
*Robert Whiting,*
*an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane.*
*At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport*
*in his carry on.**
*
*"You **
**have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked **
**sarcastically.**
*
*Mr. Whiting*
*admitted that he had been to France **
**previously.**
*
*"Then **
**you should know enough to have your passport ready."**
*
*The American said,*
*"The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."**
*
*"Impossible.. **
**Americans always have to show their passports on arrival in France
!"**
*
*The American senior*
*gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he **
**quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on
D-Day in **
**1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single
Frenchmen **
**to show a passport to."**
*
*You **
**could have heard a pin drop.*
*~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*
*If **
**you are proud to be an American, pass this on! If not, delete it.*
***I am proud to be of this land, AMERICA*
--
Joey Couch
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