Haven’t seen anything in print on the Belleau Wood battle. Although the History and Military channels have covered it only briefly.

Another good perspective on WWI is the TV movie “The Lost Patrol”.Talk about some bad-asses. No wonder the Germans were impressed.

God bless the Heroes in your family, but don’t expect appreciation from Franchie, she is Vichy through and through…note her love of Hausser the Nazi. A pair matched in hell.

Thx. Had family in EVERY war from ww1 thru this one. but i’m not the only one here…We all need to be thanking every vet we know tomorrow

dunno the exact number of them, but there isn’t a place over here that isn’t a memory to our dead soldiers, americans englishs frenchs ;

1,5 million french soldiers died in WW1

fifish, you know it’s you I love

already told you so though

You know times have changed when the NYTimes wrote things like this.

“Our boys took especial delight in corralling the machine guns.”

That is no lie. Todays NYT placed in WW1 would have been rounded up lock stock and barrel in the first seep of the Wilson Espionage and Sedition acts.

““Our boys ” in the WW1 NYT’s article I found funny. I could just imagine the hours of reprimand and derogatory that would get from the “We are World Citizens” crowd.

WWII 72 million total deaths
US Total casualties 996,000 out of the 16 million who served.
China suffered 9 million deaths

Of those deaths in WWI&II I lost two uncles in France. One a Bronze Star winner with V for Valor postumous award in WWI. One a silver star winner in WWII (postumous award).

One remains in France somewhere.

Hey dude, I read your columns at WND.
Sooner or later we’re giving out the “Ernie Pyle” award for combat reporting. It’s going to be hard to pick the best. You, Pat, Michael Yon, Bill Reggio…Might just have to nominate you all for a single award….just to make it fair.

Keep up the good work. The smart people don’t give a shit about the LLMSM anymore. They get their news on the war from guys like you.

All Quiet On The Western Front is not only a great book about arguably the worst conflict men have ever endured, but it is the best book about the human spirit ever in my opinion. Dont read into spirit, happy oprah shit. The spirit in this book is the dark, enduring, complex spirit of men in constant conflict.

I highly recommend it as well.

This battle is but one of many for the Corps that have made for our peerless reputation. The Marines would bark as they bayonneted the Hun and in their terror, the Germans named us Tufel Hunden (sp?) or Devil Dogs, a term of both endearment and respect among Marines ever since.

At the Marine Corps Birthday Ball it is tradition to acknowledge the oldest and youngest in attendance. At my first Ball in 1987 a veteran of that battle was honored at our celebration. As a young Lance Corporal, not long out of boot camp, it was an inspiring moment to meet a living part of our great history.

Happy Birthday, Semper Fi

a short description of a movie, “A very long engagement” (from the movie-maker, of “Delicatessen”, Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

The action of the movie is mainly in “tranchées” ; very realistic ; for someone who knows JPJ’s works, that means something.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Very_Long_Engagement

[If you like history, read “All Quiet of The Western Front”

**Haven’t seen anything in print on the Belleau Wood battle**. Although the History and Military channels have covered it only briefly.]

Check out Robert B. Asprey’s “At Belleau Wood” on UNT Press.

A little dry, but very thorough.