Get your blood boiling today

May is a month of holidays for the French. May 1 was labor day. No work on that day. One week later on May 8, V-E Day, is another holiday. And then again on May 25, it is the Ascension of Christ (although nobody goes to church). The holiday is always on a Thursday so here in France, the next day - Friday the 26th is also a day off from work.

We went out for drinks the other night with our 3 American friends and their guests who were visiting them from the US. The subject of holidays came up and as we were discussing the May 8th holiday, V-E Day. One of the guests said, “Ah yes, the Thank the Americans, the British and the Russians Day”. Our American friend married to a French woman argued back. “Oh no, not the French of today! They don’t think the Americans helped them much. In fact, my wife said her professors taught her that by the time the Americans showed up in the war, it was almost over anyway”.

Oh my... Where could we go with that one?? Would we be living in France right now, or Germany instead?