Several hundred French hold pro-U.S. demonstration.

Doglips · 03-03-2003, 08:34 AM

Figured I would post some positive news for a change...this is good to hear/read.

Some French citizens have not forgotten: Several hundred French hold pro-U.S. demonstration. (Hat tip: Susan.)

PARIS - The gratitude that Claire Gold has for the Americans who helped liberate France from the Nazis runs so deep that she still feels indebted to the United States, 59 years later.

That is why Gold, now 75, braved a bitterly cold Sunday evening to join about 250 other French men, women and children holding a pro-American demonstration at the Place de la Concorde, not far from the U.S. Embassy.

Gold was a 17-year-old Jew living in Paris when the French capital was liberated on Aug. 25, 1944 — the day she took off the yellow star she was forced to wear. Her father was not so lucky — he had been stripped of his citizenship and deported to Auschwitz, where he died. Gold believes she would have shared the same fate had the Americans not arrived when they did.

"I have been pro-American since the liberation," said Gold. "I always have been, and I always will be for the Americans."

NRAJOE · 03-03-2003, 08:54 AM

We still have a few friends in Korea also...glad to see not everyone wants history to repeat itself!

Sniper[MI] · 03-03-2003, 04:28 PM

Howdy,

I guess not everyone in France hates us, and there was considerable resistance from French nationals during WW2, I wondfer if that ripe old idiot Chirac (rhymes with Iraq) will pay attention to any of his own citizens?

03-03-2003, 08:34 AM	#1
Doglips Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Cocoa Florida Posts: 9,089	Several hundred French hold pro-U.S. demonstration. Figured I would post some positive news for a change...this is good to hear/read. Some French citizens have not forgotten: Several hundred French hold pro-U.S. demonstration. (Hat tip: Susan.) PARIS - The gratitude that Claire Gold has for the Americans who helped liberate France from the Nazis runs so deep that she still feels indebted to the United States, 59 years later. That is why Gold, now 75, braved a bitterly cold Sunday evening to join about 250 other French men, women and children holding a pro-American demonstration at the Place de la Concorde, not far from the U.S. Embassy. Gold was a 17-year-old Jew living in Paris when the French capital was liberated on Aug. 25, 1944 — the day she took off the yellow star she was forced to wear. Her father was not so lucky — he had been stripped of his citizenship and deported to Auschwitz, where he died. Gold believes she would have shared the same fate had the Americans not arrived when they did. "I have been pro-American since the liberation," said Gold. "I always have been, and I always will be for the Americans."

03-03-2003, 08:54 AM	#2
NRAJOE Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Toledo,OH Posts: 19,052 Images: 3	We still have a few friends in Korea also...glad to see not everyone wants history to repeat itself! __________________ U.S. Army 1976-1979 237th Combat Engineers Heilbronn, Germany

03-03-2003, 04:28 PM	#3
Sniper[MI] Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Future 51st state, "New Hope" Posts: 3,796	Broad Brush Howdy, I guess not everyone in France hates us, and there was considerable resistance from French nationals during WW2, I wondfer if that ripe old idiot Chirac (rhymes with Iraq) will pay attention to any of his own citizens? __________________ FNUH!