Interesting historical perspective

This is really interesting - a really unimaginable loss for a generation - and it kind of helps explain why France reacted like it did in 1940.

"In 1914-18, 1.3 million Frenchmen (those cheese-eating surrender monkeys) were killed defending their country, which is to say more than twice as many as all the Americans who have died in every foreign war from 1776 until today. - New York Times, Feb. 11, 2008.