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[lurchenstein]

Saw this letter in an e-mail. Don't know if it's authentic, but I'd be disappointed if it wasn't.

Dear Dad,

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 in Iraq. 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, again, at some point in the near future anyway.

I also told him that is why France is a third-rate military power with a socialist economy and a bunch of girly men 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, if it ever came, was only for show anyway.

Just like in ALL NATO exercises, the US would shoulder 85% of the burden, and provide 85% of the support, as evidenced by the fact that this 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 whip his ass in front of the entire Multi-National 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?

Dad, tell mom I love her,

Your loving daughter

Mary Beth Johnson,
LtCol, USMC

[JChristin]

LtCol. Mary Beth Johnson represents the very finest of women Marines. I love her spirit. She is 110% Marine through and through. One of the "fewer and the prouder." She not only knows history and is educated, but she isn't afraid to do that which is right. She's got guts. Makes me glad to be a WM. Can I nominate her as "Woman Marine" of the year?


semper fi
jchristin

[lurchenstein]

By all means! Sounds like she already has the french (intentionally mis-spelled) forces retreating.