{"id":79051,"date":"2018-04-24T11:31:45","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=79051"},"modified":"2018-04-24T11:31:45","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T15:31:45","slug":"belleau-wood-at-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=79051","title":{"rendered":"Belleau Wood at the White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to the Washington Examiner<\/a>, French President Emmanuel Macron brought a sapling from Belleau Wood and the Presidents planted the tree on White House grounds. Belleau Wood is where the US Marines earned their nick name “Teufel Hunden” or Devil Dogs from their German opponents.<\/p>\n

Marines have made what was left of the scorched wood Holy. Stories of heroism \u2014 like 1st Sgt. Daniel Day, who shouted \u201cCome on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?” before plunging his attacking Marines into machine-gun cross fire \u2014 are part of the branch\u2019s enduring mythology. The trees have grown back since and there is a memorial to them today.<\/p>\n

It is well deserved. Years later, historian Alan Axelrod would rightly compare the small, outnumbered, and relatively inexperienced Marines at Belleau Wood \u201cto the Spartans at Thermopylae.\u201d Their battle didn\u2019t turn the war. It did prevent a catastrophe…\u201c100 years ago, American soldiers fought in France, in Belleau to defend our freedom,\u201d Macron wrote in a statement. \u201cThis oak tree, my gift to President Trump, will be a reminder at the White House of these ties that bind us.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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French President Emmanuel Macron and French first lady Brigitte Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump and U.S. first lady Melania Trump today on the White House's South Lawn. pic.twitter.com\/1Ow4FlmAoW<\/a><\/p>\n

— Francesca Chambers (@fran_chambers) April 23, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n