A letter to home from a marine
03-10-2003, 04:42 PM
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A letter to home from a marine
Dear Dad,
>
>
> A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
>
>
>
> A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
> (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going
> to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be
> able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise
> me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II,
> Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to
> surface [again] at some point in the near future anyway. I also told him
> that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy
> and a bunch of pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him that America,
> being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to
> do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway. Just
> like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and
> provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French
> officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.
>
>
>
> He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like
> to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ***
> in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating
> that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average
> Frenchman.
>
> He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends
> like these, who needs enemies?
>
>
> Dad, tell Mom I love her,
> Your loving daughter,
> Mary Beth Johnson
> LtCol., USMC
>
>
> A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
>
>
>
> A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought we
> (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going
> to provoke a war in Iraq. He said if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be
> able to count on the support of France. I told him that it didn't surprise
> me. Since we had come to France's rescue in World War I, World War II,
> Vietnam, and the Cold War, their ingratitude and jealousy was due to
> surface [again] at some point in the near future anyway. I also told him
> that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy
> and a bunch of pansies for soldiers. I additionally told him that America,
> being a nation of deeds and action, not words, would do whatever it had to
> do, and France's support, if it ever came, was only for show anyway. Just
> like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and
> provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this French
> officer was shopping in the American PX, and not the other way around.
>
>
>
> He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would like
> to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and whip his ***
> in front of the entire Multi-National Brigade East, thus demonstrating
> that even the smallest American had more fight in him than the average
> Frenchman.
>
> He called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff. With friends
> like these, who needs enemies?
>
>
> Dad, tell Mom I love her,
> Your loving daughter,
> Mary Beth Johnson
> LtCol., USMC
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