Heard this. Not sure if it's true. British paratroopers landed in France to celebrate D-Day, and the French custom came to ask for their papers x)
D-Day and Modern Folks.
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Son kneeling in front jumped with the Old Timers on the 50th anniversary.
Stained glass honoring paratroopers in St Marie church!
Most people today have no idea what D day was. Then again most "kids" today can't name a country in Europe or telling you what country the Great Wall of China is in.
They should have began screaming profanity laced but otherwise unintelligible gibberish at the French, which would have made the welcome mat unravel like the red carpet at a Hollywood premier and the welfare begin to flow like the waters of the Mississippi River.
Yes it's true. Fcking French. If it was Nazis they would have offered them wine, cheese and their women. France also a country that allows illegals to flow over their borders with no paperwork required.
Some 320 British, Belgian and US paratroopers took part in the jump, descending into a historic D-Day drop zone to recreate the events of 1944. However only the 250 British paras were required to show passports as the US soldiers jumped from within France and Belgium is part of the European Union.2 hours ago
Fury as British paras made to show passports after historic D-Day jump
The French penchant for bureaucracy has been roundly mocked after British paratroopers were met by clipboard-carrying officials as they landed in Normandy for the 80th anniversary of D-Day.
I came back from S Asia in the very early sixties, no band, no thing, when my boy jumped with the old timers they marched in town, they threw flowers, girls ran up and kissed them, I cried as I watched it on tv, finally my boy gave me peace.
Let's just say society is slipping.............
this is Gangsta
this was Gangster
this is Gangsta
this was Gangster
When it comes right down to it, that is what we all desire.
The Apollo 11 crew had to go through customs after returning from the moon 
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
While we tend to hold the French in a kind of disregard, I would suggest that you spend some reading what they endured during the war. Don't hold it against the people who happened to have a few distasteful leaders after the war. The French have always welcomed us back when we come back for the D-Day remembrance ceremonies. And, yes, they will speak English to us.
Most can't name the country where the king of England is at.
Just to show a piper was at D-Day landing. God bless the pipers.
"Millin played "Highland Laddie" "The Road to the Isles" and "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. Millin stated that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad."
"Millin played "Highland Laddie" "The Road to the Isles" and "All The Blue Bonnets Are Over The Border" as his comrades fell around him on Sword Beach. Millin stated that he later talked to captured German snipers who claimed they did not shoot at him because they thought he had gone mad."
Generalities! Hate 'em. The generations many of you are damning an ignorant need to spend a bit of time at a military base and ask a few youngsters where they served. Or, visit a few, young, very young, maimed vets before indicting whole groups of people. Volunteers all, brave, serving their country as many of the forefathers did, with honor.
Can any of you name the last war in which Brits were "piped into battle"? Without Googling!
I would also bet, click bait aside, everyone of those troopers had been forewarned and had their passports readily available. British attention to detail don't you know.
Can any of you name the last war in which Brits were "piped into battle"? Without Googling!
I would also bet, click bait aside, everyone of those troopers had been forewarned and had their passports readily available. British attention to detail don't you know.
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I'd heard that the French government surrendered to them!
Kids do need to be aware of this, and commemorative events will help, however naturally as the last people involved pass away WWII will be become hazier in people's memory banks.
I wouldn't reserve all judgement though against today's youth. Its up to more senior people to pass on their moral code on such occurrences, however there are even septaugenarians with disparaging views of those that served, died and were captured in war.
I write this a someone whose grandfather was captured by Rommels Afrika Korps in 1942, and spent 3 years in a POW camp in Poland.
Historically, the French and the English have never gotten along very well. Then I think that Brexit has annoyed quite a few EU countries.
So I think it's more of a spite rather than a matter of simple bureaucracy.