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.
Friday, September 16, 2022
13 décembre 1952 – Indochine française. Portrait du caporal-chef Auguste Apel, légionnaire.
Din Din Poo, as LBJ so quaintly put it, was only part of their general collapse in Indochina. Too much to do, too little to do it with, and some genuinely horrific last stands occurred. Bernard Fall covered all that in his classic Street Without Joy.
Dien Bien Phu circa 1954.It didn't end well for the frogs. Then again it didn't end well for the yanks 19 years later either.
ReplyDeleteDin Din Poo, as LBJ so quaintly put it, was only part of their general collapse in Indochina. Too much to do, too little to do it with, and some genuinely horrific last stands occurred. Bernard Fall covered all that in his classic Street Without Joy.
DeleteFrogs? I figure former Wehrmacht
ReplyDeleteIs that Howard Hughes in the background?
ReplyDeleteOu est le kepi blanc?
ReplyDeleteEngineer beard
ReplyDeletewhere in the hell have real men like that gone, they were common at one time in my youth.
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