THANK YOU AMERICA

Today all over the French Republic is a national holiday, celebrating Armistice for the Second World War. Thank you America, for helping to bring it to a close, and to a close that the free world can live with.

Even though you did not enter the war at the beginning, in fact you came in after being attacked at Pearl Harbour, if not for that attack, I wonder how our world of today would be. England put up a brave fight, and did so longer than the rest of Europe, mostly due to location, but sooner or later would have been worn down and overrun, as it was back in Roman times.

It seems to me Europe is ungrateful when it comes to this. So many of them find fault with America these days, especially France. They seem better friends today with Germany who invaded them than with England who helped liberate them. I wonder why. Not simply because of the bit of water that separates them, since France seems to think the Republic, is one, indivisible, even though I am here to tell them that the Atlantic Ocean has divided the Republic, and those of us on this side of it will never be like them on the Eastern side.

What would it be like if Germany had won? Would the world be speaking German now? Not that I have a language problem, but German is a difficult language. How many of us would still be here? In the search for racial purity', how far would Hitler have gone?
How many more millions would have perished? Where would he have put his capital? Would there be any free countries around today if he had had his way? When I look around, only Australia seems to have been either far enough away or strong enough to resist him. What would have become of Africa and south America? Not to mention the Asian continent. Could he have taken on China? And most of all, what of Japan? How much could they have accomplished if America had not brought the War to a close?

D-Day which was June 6, 1944 was less than a year before Armistice, May 8, 1945. It may be that by not entering the war before American troops were fresh enough to do what European troops couldn't do.

Whatever the reason, I am very thankful to America for having entered it and even though it does not seem to be very popular today because of another war, the world still expects America to fight for all those who can't fight for themselves.

One more time, thank you, America for giving us our freedom.

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