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You know anything about rural France?
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Posted by jdemaris on November 03, 2006 at 15:16:01 from (66.218.11.180):
In Reply to: Re: OT - I was wrong posted by Fawteen on November 03, 2006 at 12:15:26:
My grandad and his brother fired their's plenty when they were in the French Army - more specifically the French Alpine mountain unit in WWI along the French and Spanish border in the Pyrenees. At that time, there were a lot of rural French farmers in southern France picking up guns and fighting to the death. My grandad's younger brother at age 16 was killed the first month. My grandma's ville was completely destroyed and all villagers killed (that the Nazis could catch)including woman, children, and farm animals. The rural people of France were quite different than some of their Parisian counterparts. Much of the same in WWII - how about Charles Degaulle and the underground freedom fighters? But . . . there are also a lot of decadent, lazy, and gutless French people - more and more as time goes on. That happens to many societies when they get too comfortable - and I'm afraid it might happen here in the U.S. How many people do you know - today - that would stand up for themselves if some foreign army came marching down our streets? I don't have an answer for that - but from what I've seen lately, I wonder. And - I do have a few worn-out French rifles.
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