Gratitude To The Citizens Of France Poem by Saiom Shriver

The United States would not
exist without
the priceless aid from
the citizens of France.

Little that means to
Bush-Obama who spied
on those who bequeathed
us liberty's dance.



James Mitchener in his book Chesapeake quoted historians who described
the Battle of the Chesapeake on September 5th,1781. The US had been losing the Revolutionary War since 1776 until 1981. (Such drives for independence are called rebellions, riots, mob action, insurgencies, insurrections, uprisings or mutinies, e.g., by the ignorant and cruel who are in power.) American soldiers often had no food, no pay, no arms, no shoes. At sea and on land, many courageous Americans lost their lives fighting the British. The thirteen colonies who had named themselves The United States of America were on their eastern coast rimmed by a band of iron... of British warships.. the shore the British cannonized sending many to be canonized...

The ships' blockade continued and so did the British control of New York City... when suddenly after years of lobbying by Ben Franklin 5500 French troops arrived and, . on the horizon.. like the miracle of the rising sun appeared the French fleet.

Temporarily they were trapped within the Chesapeake Bay.. but courageously and magnificently they broke out... and two lines five miles long! *! *! *! composed of British and French warships faced each other. The battle out at sea was seen by very few. One American civilian captain described his ship's witness role as that of a gnat watching eagles.

The British admiral's tactics were to focus on killing the French sailors, while the French tactics were to disable the British ships. It was the French who beat the British in this decisive naval battle of the war and who helped America's troops to surround Cornwallis in Yorktown, Virginia. With all our hearts may we say

'Thank you eternally to the people of France.! '