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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #469
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Just have a look on this video, testimony of former French hostages in Abidjan...
None of them complain that the helicopters of the COS made too much noise...
" It's about fifty madmen, it's about an unimaginable savagery, so you know very well that you will not take a bullet in the head, in all cases you will die there but in atrocious conditions. " ( 1:29 )
" Not only they save us, they only did their job for some of them, but in addition they showed lot of humanism, because we all were very shocked and they all found the time to tell us a word, maybe even catching a smile from us. I mean it's enormous. " ( 2:43 )
" I would say the quality they have, in addition to being real pros, is that they are really human beings. They are people, people like everyone else, but they are much more concerned with the lives of others, because of their job. " ( 3:03 )
"It is their life they gamble, it is one life for one life." ( 3:22 )
"I don't know if one day... Well, we want to be grateful, but we don't know how to be." ( 3:28 )
Well, i don't know for you but for me, i prefer to hear this kind of real-life testimony rather than the moaning of retired old bags in Port Louis, who risk nothing else than maybe to prick themselves with their knitting needles. That's all.
None of them complain that the helicopters of the COS made too much noise...
" It's about fifty madmen, it's about an unimaginable savagery, so you know very well that you will not take a bullet in the head, in all cases you will die there but in atrocious conditions. " ( 1:29 )
" Not only they save us, they only did their job for some of them, but in addition they showed lot of humanism, because we all were very shocked and they all found the time to tell us a word, maybe even catching a smile from us. I mean it's enormous. " ( 2:43 )
" I would say the quality they have, in addition to being real pros, is that they are really human beings. They are people, people like everyone else, but they are much more concerned with the lives of others, because of their job. " ( 3:03 )
"It is their life they gamble, it is one life for one life." ( 3:22 )
"I don't know if one day... Well, we want to be grateful, but we don't know how to be." ( 3:28 )
Well, i don't know for you but for me, i prefer to hear this kind of real-life testimony rather than the moaning of retired old bags in Port Louis, who risk nothing else than maybe to prick themselves with their knitting needles. That's all.
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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #470
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I'm going to visit this today...
At the 1911 census, Lorient appears by far the most important city of the department, with more than 49,000 inhabitants. It is also the city of Morbihan that pays the highest price in the Great War, with over 1,700 died for France. The Centenary of the First World War is both an opportunity to pay tribute to Lorient fighters and publicizing the scale of upheaval it caused in the population and the city. The exhibition "The Great War of Lorient" also aims to pay tribute to all those who lived, mostly anonymous but whose memory resurfaces through family archives collected recently.
Lorient is engaged on the sea front, this is a military port and an arsenal involved in homeland defense and submarine warfare; and it is a city that becomes the back center of rest and care during the conflict. The exhibition will focus on presenting these two features. It is designed according to an approach that is both chronological and thematic of the Great War. For each year of the war, a general picture of events, political and military, and a local table of the main activities of the city during the conflict are presented. The exhibition consists of six parts and is punctuated by portraits of soldiers or civilians: extraordinary destinies or representative. For each part, an introductory text, a timeline and special presentations guide the visitor.
Place is also made with reference to the artist painter Marc Vioulès honoring Joseph Julé, the last " Hairy one " in Lorient, but also to painters of the period whose works are in the museum of the city. In addition to documents (papers, military records, quotes, log books, correspondence, photographs, drawings ...), objects (war memories or crafts trenches) and works of art, video animations will be integrated in the exhibithion, making it more explicit for some objects. Testimonials by "Hairy ones" from Lorient will also be broadcasted : films and sound recordings and testimonies by descendants of "Hairy one"s, carrying the family memory, resulting from work carried collectage in 2013 and 2014.
This exhibition takes place in Lorient until february 2015 and it's for free.
At the 1911 census, Lorient appears by far the most important city of the department, with more than 49,000 inhabitants. It is also the city of Morbihan that pays the highest price in the Great War, with over 1,700 died for France. The Centenary of the First World War is both an opportunity to pay tribute to Lorient fighters and publicizing the scale of upheaval it caused in the population and the city. The exhibition "The Great War of Lorient" also aims to pay tribute to all those who lived, mostly anonymous but whose memory resurfaces through family archives collected recently.
Lorient is engaged on the sea front, this is a military port and an arsenal involved in homeland defense and submarine warfare; and it is a city that becomes the back center of rest and care during the conflict. The exhibition will focus on presenting these two features. It is designed according to an approach that is both chronological and thematic of the Great War. For each year of the war, a general picture of events, political and military, and a local table of the main activities of the city during the conflict are presented. The exhibition consists of six parts and is punctuated by portraits of soldiers or civilians: extraordinary destinies or representative. For each part, an introductory text, a timeline and special presentations guide the visitor.
Place is also made with reference to the artist painter Marc Vioulès honoring Joseph Julé, the last " Hairy one " in Lorient, but also to painters of the period whose works are in the museum of the city. In addition to documents (papers, military records, quotes, log books, correspondence, photographs, drawings ...), objects (war memories or crafts trenches) and works of art, video animations will be integrated in the exhibithion, making it more explicit for some objects. Testimonials by "Hairy ones" from Lorient will also be broadcasted : films and sound recordings and testimonies by descendants of "Hairy one"s, carrying the family memory, resulting from work carried collectage in 2013 and 2014.
This exhibition takes place in Lorient until february 2015 and it's for free.
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10 years 8 months ago - 10 years 8 months ago #471
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Starting with some words of explanation about this post, because the
Wikipedia topic
is only in French.
In France, a "Compagnon de la Libération" (litterally, "Companion of the Liberation"), is a member of the Order of the Liberation.
This Order was created in 1940 by general de Gaulle, as chief of free France, for, i quote and translate the official text, "rewarding individuals, military units and civilian communities who has been reported in the work of liberation of France and her empire".
Medal of the Order of the Liberation
(provided by French Wikipedia)
Having said that, here's the full translation of the post by Mr. Philippe Chapleau on his blog Lignes de défense.
(Link to the original post here ).
Henri Beaugé-Bérubé, Companion of the Liberation, died Friday at the age of 94 in Paris. His disappearance fact that there remains 17 Companions of the Liberation still alive.
Born September 6, 1920 in Brest, Henri Beaugé-Bérubé is the son of a naval officer and oceanographer. At 19, the announcement of the armistice, he left France by boat with his younger brother and went to England June 19, 1940, even before hearing the appeal of General de Gaulle.
Integrated in the Free French Forces (FFL) on July 1, 1940, he then joined the Battalion walk 3 and participated as a midshipman in Libya campaign (1942-1943). Head of anti-tank sections Battalion march 4, he participated in campaigns in Tunisia and Italy, where he was shot in the arm near Lake Bolsena 12 June 1944.
Promoted to lieutenant, he landed in Provence, August 16, 1944, before distinguishing September 23, 1944 before Lomontot in the Vosges, where he destroyed machine gun nests after a bold maneuver of his guns.
General aide Pierre Koenig in occupied Germany from 1947 to 1949, he was then 10 years of Native Affairs Officer in Morocco and then seconded to the Moroccan government to the provincial administration.
He will be buried at Relecq-Kerhuon, in Finistère. A religious ceremony will be held on January 21 in the St. Louis Cathedral Invalides in Paris. Military honors will be rendered to him after the ceremony in the honour courtyard.
RIP, soldier.
In France, a "Compagnon de la Libération" (litterally, "Companion of the Liberation"), is a member of the Order of the Liberation.
This Order was created in 1940 by general de Gaulle, as chief of free France, for, i quote and translate the official text, "rewarding individuals, military units and civilian communities who has been reported in the work of liberation of France and her empire".
Medal of the Order of the Liberation
(provided by French Wikipedia)
Having said that, here's the full translation of the post by Mr. Philippe Chapleau on his blog Lignes de défense.
(Link to the original post here ).
Henri Beaugé-Bérubé, Companion of the Liberation, died Friday at the age of 94 in Paris. His disappearance fact that there remains 17 Companions of the Liberation still alive.
Born September 6, 1920 in Brest, Henri Beaugé-Bérubé is the son of a naval officer and oceanographer. At 19, the announcement of the armistice, he left France by boat with his younger brother and went to England June 19, 1940, even before hearing the appeal of General de Gaulle.
Integrated in the Free French Forces (FFL) on July 1, 1940, he then joined the Battalion walk 3 and participated as a midshipman in Libya campaign (1942-1943). Head of anti-tank sections Battalion march 4, he participated in campaigns in Tunisia and Italy, where he was shot in the arm near Lake Bolsena 12 June 1944.
Promoted to lieutenant, he landed in Provence, August 16, 1944, before distinguishing September 23, 1944 before Lomontot in the Vosges, where he destroyed machine gun nests after a bold maneuver of his guns.
General aide Pierre Koenig in occupied Germany from 1947 to 1949, he was then 10 years of Native Affairs Officer in Morocco and then seconded to the Moroccan government to the provincial administration.
He will be buried at Relecq-Kerhuon, in Finistère. A religious ceremony will be held on January 21 in the St. Louis Cathedral Invalides in Paris. Military honors will be rendered to him after the ceremony in the honour courtyard.
RIP, soldier.
Henri Beaugé-Bérubé
Compagnon de la Libération
Compagnon de la Libération
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10 years 7 months ago #473
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Well, don't know where i'll be but in any case i usually don't participate to this kind of things, that's not the same as any commemoration you see, that's funerals however and it remains something private in my mind, even if there are official ceremonies as this one at the Invalides in Paris.
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10 years 7 months ago - 10 years 7 months ago #474
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Posted in "at home" forum because these guys belong to the 3rd RIMa, aka "The Big Three", based in Vannes so something as "our" regiment...
So, just a link to the blog Lignes de défense , showing a bit the everyday life of the soldiers involved in Operation Sangaris, about which we speak not much these times, as if it had become the routine...
So, just a link to the blog Lignes de défense , showing a bit the everyday life of the soldiers involved in Operation Sangaris, about which we speak not much these times, as if it had become the routine...
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