1. It can't be underlined enough how important the First World War is to France's national self-conception. Trump's failure to attend the memorial is a huge diplomatic insult.
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8. To underscore the argument: the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War is a really big deal in France, much of Europe, and the Commonwealth. Imagine a foreign leader shrugging off attending similar anniversary of, say, Gettysburg.
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The Loyalists of Belfast revere the fallen at The Somme.
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You know the joke, "How many men does it take to defend Paris? No one knows, it has never been tried." August 1914 puts the lie to that joke.
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Isn't there a term for villages in the UK that lost their entire generation of men of fighting age?
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You are thinking of the ‘thankful’ villages in Britain, where all the men who went to war survived. No single village lost ‘an entire generation’. 88% of British servicemen survived; about a quarter of those suffered a life-altering war-attributable disability.
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On the flip side, when I went and toured the trench line from Verdun up to Ypres, the British and Canadians and were confused as to why I was there. The French were indifferent, the Belgians were very welcoming.
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If you visit even the tiniest villages in France you will see a memorial to WWI. And the number of names on the memorial is stunning - surely most of the military-aged men never came home.
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It disgusts me when Americans deride the French as cowards. They lost more people in WWI, by far, than all our wars combined, and wrecked their economy.
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