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Originally Posted by Danimal16
Read an "Army at Dawn". This IS HISTORY and explains why so many GIs feel the way they do about the French Military at that time. Like the British captured in Singapore and subsequent treatment by the Japanese, it is no surprise there are some very hard feelings by the "Greatest Generation" that may remain today.
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I have read Rick Atkinson's book. This is told from a limited viewpoint. You did not see that? A classic problem in any history book. If you took the time to explore the military archives you might change your opinion. The facts are there.
But you are correct that "it is no surprise there are some very hard feelings by the "Greatest Generation" that may remain today", as it was based on much mis-information, myth and opinions, which just like racism is passed from generation to generation.
Every consider how to break that chain of opinion? It starts from facts and presenting those facts to the opinionated masses.
The Greatest Generation opinions and beliefs are not infallible. Your great, great, great grandfather thought that if you traveled faster than a horse could gallop, your breath would be sucked out of you and you would die.