..Bill Befort, #11 : America was historically pro-French and suspicious of Britain but that changed in WWII. American men died in 1944 and 1945 to free France because French men couldn’t find the will to resist Nazi’s for more than 5 weeks in 1940. Most of France collaborated with the German forces during that war. My grandfather served in the U.S. Navy in France in WWI, my father was a 100% disabled WWII vet from a teller mine on the French/German border. Our debt to France is paid, paid in full. We owe them nothing, least of all, military respect.