Our Mission
“Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for...
Pour la reconquête des valeurs humanistes qui ont fait la grandeur de la France.
“Tout au long de l’histoire, il y a eu l’inaction de ceux qui auraient pu agir; l’indifférence de ceux qui auraient dû en savoir plus, le silence de la voix de la justice quand il importait le plus qu’on...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: SAVING DEMOCRACY: 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE PROVENCE LANDINGS: THE AMERICAN PROVENCE #D-DAY80 #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75
1944 – 2024 THE LESLEY J. MCNAIR THEATER IN CALLAS, FRANCE (1945) Calas (Bouches-du-Rhône), France, June 19, 1945: the Lesley J. McNair open-air theater is the largest of all those built in transit camps. The bleachers,...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: SAVING DEMOCRACY: HERE IS TO YOU JOHN H. OLIPHINT, JACQUES ADNET & THE U. S. AIR FORCE! #D-DAY80 #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75
Istres Air Base (BA 125), France, July 25, 2001: A SNCF COUVERT “40 and 8” OCEM 29 K-219 329 railroad car is being loaded on to a USAF C-5 cargo plane before flying across the Atlantic Ocean. © Marc Voizot Private Collection....
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: RAIN OR SHINE… PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN ALWAYS HONORS OUR FALLEN HEROES: LET’S KEEP IT THAT WAY! #DDAY80 #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75
Sunday, June 9, 2024: President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden at the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery in Belleau, France. Via @POTUS. “Aisne-Marne Cemetery is the final resting place for thousands of Americans who made the ultimate sacrifice in...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN COMMEMORATING THE 80TH ANNIVERSARY OF D-DAY AT THE NORMANDY LANDINGS #DDAY80 #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFranceUSA
June 6, 2024: French President Emmanuel Macron and Mrs. Brigitte Macron and President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden in Normandy, France. The White House @WhiteHouse. JUNE 7, 1944 – JUNE 7, 2024 “We must listen to the...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FRIENDS OF LAPEROUSE USA MAUI LAPEROUSE MEMORIAL #MDFDE/FriendsOfLaperouseUSA #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFranceUSA
Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i, USA, May 30, 1994: French Patrol Vessel La Tapageuse of the Marine Nationale anchored in the port of Lahaina, Maui, Hawai’i, U. S. A., the ancient capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom under King Kamehameha (1802). © Photo Marine Nationale...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: VE DAY & THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MERCI TRAIN:” HERE IS TO YOU, GEN. PAUL DASSAULT, Mr. LAURENT DASSAULT & THE AMERICAN LEGION! #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFranceUSA
Paris, France, Saturday, January 23, 1949: The “Flambeau de la Reconnaissance,” the VERY FIRST “Torch of Gratitude” to travel from France to Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, U. S. A. was solemnly kindled from the Eternal Flame of the Unknown...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: MARCH 15 – 17, 2024: HAPPY 105TH BIRTHDAY, AMERICAN LEGION! #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #FriendsOfTheMerciTrainFRANCE-USA
The American Legion National Headquarters On this day in 1919 the first American Legion caucus was held by members of the American Expeditionary Force, convening in Paris. War-weary members of the American Expeditionary Forces gathered for a “morale conference” that...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MERCI TRAIN II:” THE FRENCH RESPONSE TO DREW PEARSON’S FRIENDSHIP TRAIN #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFranceUSA
Paris, France, Monday, October 18, 1948: Shown above at the Gare Saint-Lazare, one of the French capital’s main train stations, are two SNCF workmen putting the finishing touches on one of the forty-nine “Merci Train” WWI boxcars of the...
MDFDE/FRANCE-GREAT BRITAIN-USA: LA FLAMME DE LA LIBERTÉ (THE LIBERTY FLAME) – OPERATION MIRROR 2024 #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFRANCE-USA
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: IN CELEBRATION OF THE 75th ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MERCI TRAIN” (1949-2024) via our French-American project #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 (2024-2025), the Mouvement des Français de l’Etranger (MDFDE) — French and Francophones Abroad — Friends of the Merci Train...
MDFDE/FRANCE-USA: 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE “MERCI TRAIN:” THE FRENCH RESPONSE TO DREW PEARSON’S FRIENDSHIP TRAIN #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain75 #MDFDEFriendsOfTheMerciTrainFranceUSA
Washington D. C., February 6, 1949: With Drew PEARSON, master of ceremonies of the Official “Merci Train” Welcoming Committe in D.C., his hometown, standing on his right, Vice-president Alben W. BARKLEY (left hand on podium), a Democrat from Kentucky, speaks...