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> *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.*
> > *
> > *
> > *These are good*
> > *
> >
> > **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.*
> > * *
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