Ted, it is looking great!
Not all French "dropped" guns and raised their hands. 1.15 million Frenchmen were killed in combat during the 4 years WWI was fought on or near their soil. When the Germans advanced on Paris, French soldiers were taken to the front in taxi-cabs and stalled the German advance. Yes, the Doughboys helped turn the tide and made the difference, but the suffering in deaths by the French combatants was staggering compared with the deaths of 53,000 Americans. Growing up in the shadow of WWII, I always heard the dropped once and never fired reference attributed to the Italian Army. That and their tanks had one speed forward and 4 in reverse. Gil
Look at what they were facing also in WW2. We like to make fun of them but if you study that war there wasn't an army on the planet that could stop the German army in 1939, 1940 or 1941. It was only attrition and shear exhaustion that eventually stopped them.
But the jokes will continue anyway.
