US Marines hailed as heroes for stopping French train gunman.
I imagine the rest of the
Armed Forces finds this very annoying.
(mocking aside -- everyone should feel proud and grateful to them and to the Englishman who had a hand in it. I imagine the full story will come out eventually. And I wish my fellow Americans would lay off the "surrender monkey" comments).
Update: And, as it turned out, they were from the Air Force
and the National Guard. In a way it's touching that when two young
American servicemen tackle a gunman barehanded, a train full of French passengers assumes
they're Marines.
(mocking aside -- everyone should feel proud and grateful to them and to the Englishman who had a hand in it. I imagine the full story will come out eventually. And I wish my fellow Americans would lay off the "surrender monkey" comments).
Had to look up "surrender monkeys." Blowhards. One of the most impressive people I ever met was a short, plump, middle aged, very unassuming French man who'd spent his youth as a resistance sapper in occupied France. Don't underestimate the French who have had considerable success in clearing Boko Haram out of northern Mali; they're back, unfortunately, and so are the French.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, those young (and not so young) men on the train deserve their medals and the thanks of thousands who would have been harmed or traumatized by a successful attack. Part character, and part training, I imagine.