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Note to Jerry Wollford: 

If we go back a ways, we find Frenchmen who helped us gain our freedom from Brittan in the Revolution.  Lafayette did his part as a general in the Revolutionary army.  John Adams recognized from the start that we were in bad shape because we hardly had a Navy.  He was sent to negotiate a treaty with France that would bring them into the war on our side.  Communications were slow in those days.  When he left Boston on a sailing ship the treaty had already been signed with Ben Franklin's assistance, but Adams didn't find out about it until he reached Paris after almost being shipwrecked.  When Cornwallis found himself surrounded by Washington's patriots with little choice but surrender, the French navy was just offshore to keep him from being reinforced or evacuated. 

When we prepared the Certificates of Appreciation and words for the framed messages left for the town halls of the towns we liberated, that is why we could say in historic confidence that the unique part each town played in the liberation of Southern France and the reading of our plaque by succeeding generations would preserve the enduring bonds of respect and friendship between our countries.  

\The legitimate differences we sometimes have require rekindling the strong ties of the past.  When Adams presented himself to King George of England as our first ambassador there, the king referred to our association with France and Adams responded that he had only one loyalty and that was to his own country.  The king acknowledged this universal truth that sometimes makes it difficult to appreciate other countries but always easy to love our own.  HH