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Old July 25th, 2008, 09:05 PM
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I know! This is mainly due to propaganda n' the history written by the victorius.

But the French can't just claim that they only was first with using gas in warfare. It was also a French pilot that was the first one to shoot down another plane. You know, those French...
Ironic that they have those claims..yet they've never won a battle in history...witohu the help of others.
That's not true! The French did in fact win in the Revolution (but then the opponent was also French)...
They helped us win the American Revolution...sorta
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I know! This is mainly due to propaganda n' the history written by the victorius.

But the French can't just claim that they only was first with using gas in warfare. It was also a French pilot that was the first one to shoot down another plane. You know, those French...
Ironic that they have those claims..yet they've never won a battle in history...witohu the help of others.
That's not true! The French did in fact win in the Revolution (but then the opponent was also French)...
They helped us win the American Revolution...sorta
Matt has a point. Frenchmen died over here to help win independence for Americans.
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I know! This is mainly due to propaganda n' the history written by the victorius.

But the French can't just claim that they only was first with using gas in warfare. It was also a French pilot that was the first one to shoot down another plane. You know, those French...
Ironic that they have those claims..yet they've never won a battle in history...witohu the help of others.
That's not true! The French did in fact win in the Revolution (but then the opponent was also French)...
They helped us win the American Revolution...sorta
Matt has a point. Frenchmen died over here to help win independence for Americans.
n' the main reason was "our enemy's enemy must be our friend".
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I know! This is mainly due to propaganda n' the history written by the victorius.

But the French can't just claim that they only was first with using gas in warfare. It was also a French pilot that was the first one to shoot down another plane. You know, those French...
Ironic that they have those claims..yet they've never won a battle in history...witohu the help of others.
That's not true! The French did in fact win in the Revolution (but then the opponent was also French)...
They helped us win the American Revolution...sorta
Matt has a point. Frenchmen died over here to help win independence for Americans.
n' the main reason was "our enemy's enemy must be our friend".
This too is true.
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When I was born (in 1967) our neighbour was a woman caring for her husband who'd been a veteran of WW1. He spent the better part of forty years dying from the gas he'd inhaled in France.
My Uncle Jay Walker went to France as part of the Wyoming NG. Though gassed, he lived until 1961, but I remember him coughing up a black flem that eventually caused his death.
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British troops loading gas shells into Livens projectors-date and location unknown
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