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BASTILLE BLEAH

Today is Bastille Day, a big holiday in France. I used to be a big Francophile and studied the language for seven years. But now, French behavior over Iraq and other matters has me saying, “Sacre bleu!”

The irony was not lost on most Americans as we celebrated the 60th anniversary of D-Day. We saved their ever-lovin’ derrieres from the Germans in World War II, and yet the French have been so cowardly, craven and insulting to us lately in the war on terrorism and efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some friends THEY are.

The real reason: money. They’re entangled in Iraq. So France sold out.

We have this neat D-Day remembrance book by TIME that has lots of pictures of the 1944 deliverance of France that, today, are ironic indeed. When the Americans and British swept into Paris, the French jammed the streets shouting their joy and thanks to the Allies, who had spent an incredible number of lives and dollars to liberate them from their enemy.

The TIME reporter wrote, “I have never seen in any face such joy as radiated from the faces of the people of Paris this morning.’’

Sandwiches and champagne were shoved at soldiers; flowers and kisses were thrown. Frenchmen climbed on top of cars and jeeps, jumping for joy. The crowd made “a great mass cry of delight that swelled and died down and swelled to a greater height. . . . But one word repeated over and over rose above all the other words. It was ‘Merci! Merci! Merci!’’’

How quickly they forget.

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Prayer request: Urgent prayer to spare the life of the husband of a fellow summer Bible study participant. Darrell was diagnosed with brain cancer and had just begun radiation therapy. He seemed to be doing OK, but his wife couldn’t awaken him Tuesday and he had to be rushed to the hospital. In such an emergency, all we can do is cling to You, Father, for strength, comfort and, if it be Your will, life for this Godly man. (John 10:10)