French consul general keynotes Sonoma Memorial Day observance
Romain Serman, Consul General of France in San Francisco, this year's keynote speaker, emphasized the friendship of France and the United States starting with Lafayette and George Washington through our nation's birth. He pointed out that this friendship still stands today. He cited especially the sacrifices made by Americans in World Wars I and II in standing by France and helping rescue her from the tyranny of others. The appreciative crowd gave Consul General Serman’s speech a long ovation.A complete copy of Serman's entire presentation is published at the end of this story below.
Organized by a committee that included Bryan Aubin, LtCol, Theodore Chenoweth, USMCR (Ret.), Ruth (Parks) Chambers, Robert Leonard, Gary Magnani, LtCol. Dennis Meredith, US Army (Ret.), Timothy Norman, Dan Parker, James Parks, Leighton Parks, LtCol Don Stevens, USAF (Ret.), Bob Smith, Fred Unsworth and David Wishingrad, the celebration, included music by the Sonoma Hometown Band, a local veterans grand march, the singing of La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, by SVHS graduate Max Simonet, and the singing of the Star Spangled Banner by Sonoma Shannon Howlett, a fly-over of F-16 by the Air National Guard of Fresno, reading of the honor scroll of veterans who died in the last 12 months, presentation of gold and blue star banners, and placement of wreaths. Master of Ceremonies Chip Allen handled the introductions of Sonoma Mayor Laurie Gallian and Consul General Serman. Jordan Libby, Miss Sonoma County, led the audience in the singing of God Bless America and the Sonoma Sky Park and Sonoma Valley Airport aviators closed the ceremony with a fly over with bagpipers Lindsay Hall and John Noonan providing appropriate music.
Keynote address by Romain Serman, Consul General of France in San Francisco, at the 53rd annual Sonoma Valley Memorial Day Observance, May 30, 2011 It is a great honor, as Consul general of France, to participate today in the 53rd Sonoma Valley Joint Memorial Day Observance. I am here today to tell you that France will never forget the sailors drowned by the U-Boot; we will never forget the soldiers fallen under heavy enemy fire on Omaha Beach, in Provence, in the Ardennes; we will never forget all the men and women who spent days and nights in the shipyards and factories all over the United States to build the most powerful military power in History.French 7th Army - News
If you travel today to France, you will see, in cities and villages, a “Boulevard of the Americans”, a “General Patton avenue”, a “street of the 7th Army”, a “General Eisenhower drive”, a “Square of the United States”. We, the French people,
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Every soldier standing in formation today is now a part of that storied history,” said US Army Lt. Col. Jeremy Siegrist, commander of Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion, 1st Cav. Div. Colonel and Mrs. Dorcy, then with the 7th Cavalry Regiment at
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PARIS - A large Anglo-French Army exercise, dubbed Flandres 2011, will involve six defense companies as part of a bilateral cooperative effort aimed at boosting interoperability, French Army Gen. Hervé Charpentier said June 16.
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7:30 Am, Advance troops of the French 7th Army and the British Expeditionary Force enter Belgium. According to the Anglo-French plan, the "Dyle Plan," it would be possible to contain any GErman attack by basing the degense on Belgium and pivoting with the right flank on Sedan and the Ardennes plateau. That was the reason for the immediate advance into Belgian territory. However, the "Dyle Plan" did not foresee that the GErmans would attack across the Ardennes plateau, which was thought to be impassable, though just such an attack was key to von Manstein's Operation Sickle. By attacking in force in the Netherlands, the GErmans draw the Allies off to the northeast, breach their line on the Ardennes and quickly reach the sea near Calais. The Allied pivot at Sedan is thus destroyed at a blow, and the outcome is disasterous for the French and the British.
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