There was a big parade in Montsoreau today. The mayor received a contingent of soldiers at the chateau then inspected the troops as they marched up and down the street.
But what was it all about? Was it related in some way to the 70th anniversary of D-Day? Or was it something to do with the liberation of our départment from the Nazies?
The French love to celebrate their fallen comrades. They have no problem acknowledging their interventions around the world (mostly in Africa) and their soldiers "mort pour la patrie".
By contrast, I could not find any monument in England that memorialized the fallen in the wars in Ireland. Whether there was a war or whether it was just "the Troubles", it seems to me that England should remember their children who fell to keep Ireland under the thumb of their kings and queens.
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