And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
"He works all night and he sleeps all day. He cuts down trees, he skips and jumps, He likes to press wild flowers. He puts on women's clothing And hangs around in bars."
Lived in Morocco when my Dad was USAF attache to the King. This was during the Moroccan Revolution. Saw plenty of Legionnaires. I can still remember them marching past our villa. Goetz von Berlichingen
PS: Maybe some rain over the next few days here in the greater Pine Grove metropolitan areq.
Vive la mort, vive la guerre, vive la Légion Étrangère!
ReplyDeleteyup, that is a legionnaire!
DeleteFrench combat engineer.
ReplyDeleteHe's a lumberjack and he's OK . . .
ReplyDelete"He works all night and he sleeps all day.
DeleteHe cuts down trees, he skips and jumps,
He likes to press wild flowers.
He puts on women's clothing
And hangs around in bars."
and the sergeants sang "Non, je ne regrette rien"
ReplyDeleteÉdith Piaf, what a song, what a singer.
DeleteLegionnaire Pioneer! I can hear "Le Boudin" being sung in the background as they do the slow march.
ReplyDeleteAnd the one man in the unit required to have a beard.
DeleteI wonder if that is one of the qualifications? "How good is his beard>:
"Sir, your Corporate Performance Consultant has arrived and is waiting in the lobby."
ReplyDeleteLived in Morocco when my Dad was USAF attache to the King. This was during the Moroccan Revolution. Saw plenty of Legionnaires. I can still remember them marching past our villa.
ReplyDeleteGoetz von Berlichingen
PS: Maybe some rain over the next few days here in the greater Pine Grove metropolitan areq.
Careful with that axe Eugene.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely NOT chinesium. Vive La Legion!
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ReplyDeleteThe haircut says it all...
ReplyDeleteVive l'Internet!
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