Sunday, July 26, 2009

Surrender Museum in France

There's a joke there, somewhere. But really, on the tourist maps, it boldly proclaims "Surrender Museum." Now, of course, this actually denotes Eisenhower's headquarters in France and the historic room where the Nazi generals signed papers declaring the surrender of their armies, after mounting defeats from both the Russians and the West. Whew!


And Alyson has collected definitive proof that there are, in fact, French military heroes, or 31 pictures of honorable French men in uniform, or pictures of nicely-dressed mannequins that may have born some semblance to the dashing figures cut by those tiny little guys on the horizon, already running away. Anyway, the 31 photos of proof mysteriously disappeared. Only one remained, for the sakes of the vanity of the author:

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