Guiscard
12th February 2006, 09:58
I meet my Uncle for the 3rd time in the last 7 years of my 15 year old life. He is a old guy, he has a beer belly and he served in the French Foriegn Legion during the French-Indochina War. He joined because he was promised adventure and a time away from my grandfather & grandmother.
When he joined up he was a (I think) a student enrolled in a university, or he was employed in a business venture in France. Well as I sat next to him he told me that he got bored of his job and was POed at my grand parents (because they are complete assholes). He travelled on a taxi to a Foreign Legion recruitment station in Paris.
His training class consisted of Eastern Europeans, German refugees, Italians, and Jews.
My family is Jewish, and so was my Uncle. And after 3 1/2 months of training and being stationed in France he and his battalion was rushed into Indochina. When he got to Diên Biên Phu, he found, Oddly enough he found out that he would be fighting with Ex. SS-Men, elite Heer Troops, and other types of the old Wermacht.
Strange isn't it. :P
When he joined up he was a (I think) a student enrolled in a university, or he was employed in a business venture in France. Well as I sat next to him he told me that he got bored of his job and was POed at my grand parents (because they are complete assholes). He travelled on a taxi to a Foreign Legion recruitment station in Paris.
His training class consisted of Eastern Europeans, German refugees, Italians, and Jews.
My family is Jewish, and so was my Uncle. And after 3 1/2 months of training and being stationed in France he and his battalion was rushed into Indochina. When he got to Diên Biên Phu, he found, Oddly enough he found out that he would be fighting with Ex. SS-Men, elite Heer Troops, and other types of the old Wermacht.
Strange isn't it. :P