You know you're getting old

You know you're getting old when.....

You think PBS is cool.
I freakin love PBS. They have the best, most interesting shows. I can remember thinking PBS was so boring as a kid but now I watch it a lot.

The other night I saw an interesting piece called "Sisters in Resistance". It was about 4 french women who were involved in resistance groups in France. They were eventually caught and imprisoned in Paris for 6 months to a year and then sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp for 3 years. Their stories were heartbreaking and touching. They helped each other through those years in the camp and they are still close friends to this very day.

What I also found interesting was the fact that it seemed the French government just rolled over and allowed this Nazi occupation. That is until the US entered the war. These women were imprisoned at Ravensbruck until the Swiss Red Cross came in and freed them at the end of the war. The end of the war, which we won BECAUSE of the US.
If the United States hadn't gotten into this war, what would have happened to France?

Now, the French government is being accused of supplying fleeing Iraqi regime leaders with passports into Syria. Read it here.
I got this link from Rachel Lucas' site. Interestingly enough, I searched all over CNN.com for this article and couldn't find it. I wonder why?

Posted by De at May 6, 2003 09:41 PM