EDITORIAL: Historic Trail to Yorktown: These French are OK.(Editorial)

From: The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) | Date: November 10, 2006 | Copyright information

Nov. 10--It's good to see American politicians are again willing to be photographed with the French. Well, some French. Like the Revolutionary War reenactor in town recently dressed as one of French Gen. Rochambeau's troops. The reenactor took photos with Sen. Arlen Specter (R., Pa.) and U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah (D., Pa.), which may be of some use in boosting an effort to give official recognition to a historic war route. He was portraying one of the brave soldiers -- albeit from Donald Rumsfeld's "old Europe" -- who marched side-by-side with the troops to the decisive ...

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