[Rhodes22-list] FW: From a Marine in Bosnia

[Rik Sandberg]

Heck, I knew all along it probably wasn't true. You can't put too much 
stock in most of the stuff that gets forwarded around in the email. It WAS 
funny, just the same.

Kinda wish it was true though

Rik

At 08:19 PM 2/7/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Sorry to disappoint, but this was listed there also.
>
>http://www.snopes.com/military/marine.htm
>
>Not that I don't think the french military hat is a bit silly.
>
>Jim Connolly
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org
> > [mailto:rhodes22-list-bounces@rhodes22.org]On Behalf Of John Tonjes
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 5:54 PM
> > To: Rhodes org. owners list
> > Subject: [Rhodes22-list] FW: From a Marine in Bosnia
> >
> >
> > I just had to share this with everyone.
> >
> > Rummy
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: VMontgo32@aol.com [mailto:VMontgo32@aol.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:39 AM
> > To: undisclosed-recipients:
> > Subject: From a Marine in Bosnia
> >
> >
> > >From a Marine in Bosnia
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > In light of the French stating that they would Veto any action against
> > Iraq
> > that we may propose before the Sequrity Council of the UN, I thought
> > this
> > email from a US Marine serving in Bosnia would put things in
> > perspective.
> >
> > >From a Marine in Bosnia. Note the signature, but read it last.
> >
> > A funny thing happened to me yesterday at Camp Bondsteel (Bosnia):
> > A French army officer walked up to me in the PX, and told me he thought
> > we
> > (Americans) were a bunch of cowboys and were going to provoke a war. He
> > said
> > if such a thing happens, we wouldn't be able to count on the support of
> > France.
> >
> > I told him that it didn't surprise me. Since we had come to France's
> > rescue
> > in World War I, World War II, Vietnam, and the Cold War, their
> > ingratitude
> > and jealousy was due to surface at some point in the near future anyway.
> >
> > That is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist
> > economy
> > and a bunch of faggots for soldiers.
> >
> > I additionally told him that America, being a nation of deeds and
> > action,
> > not words, would do whatever it had to do, and France's support was only
> > for
> > show anyway. Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85%
> > of
> > the burden, as evidenced by the fact that the French officer was
> > shopping in
> > the American PX, and not the other way around.
> >
> > He began to get belligerent at that point, and I told him if he would
> > like
> > to, I would meet him outside in front of the Burger King and beat his
> > ass in
> > front of the entire Multinational Brigade East, thus demonstrating that
> > even
> > the smallest American had more fight in him than the average Frenchman.
> > He
> > called me a barbarian cowboy and walked away in a huff.
> >
> > With friends like these, who needs enemies?
> >
> > Mary Beth Johnson Lt.Col, USMC
> >
> >
> > DON'T YOU JUST LOVE A REAL AMERICAN WOMAN!!!!
> >
> >
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