{"id":20848,"date":"2017-10-14T13:07:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-14T13:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/?p=20848"},"modified":"2024-02-10T19:18:18","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T19:18:18","slug":"mdfdeusa-wwi-wwii-here-is-to-you-gabrielle-griswold-mdfdefriendshipmercitrain70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.francaisdeletranger.org\/en\/2017\/10\/14\/mdfdeusa-wwi-wwii-here-is-to-you-gabrielle-griswold-mdfdefriendshipmercitrain70\/","title":{"rendered":"MDFDE\/USA: WWI-WWII: Here is to you Gabrielle GRISWOLD! #MDFDEFriendshipMerciTrain70"},"content":{"rendered":"
Paris, France in the Fall of 1947:<\/strong> Ms. Gabrielle Griswold.<\/strong> (Private Collection). This photo shows Blake\u2019s American Aid to France during a Friendship Train Steering Committee meeting, held to discuss Friendship Train distributions throughout France. Blake sits at his desk at far right, I am beside him (second right) taking minutes \u00a0of the meeting, while representatives of French and American charitable organizations sit opposite us. GG.<\/address>\n

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With love, respect and gratitude to my AMAZING friend Gabrielle Griswold and her late mother along with every single brave Yankee who served “Over There”<\/em> in Europe, in France when France–our parents and grands-parents–needed them and America the most!<\/p>\n

So proud to have Gabrielle on board our MDFDE to keep us all inspired with her vivid memories, her first-hand account of the “American Aid to France,” Drew Pearson’s people-to-people “Friendship Train” marking its 70th Anniversary this year, and the unrelated “Marshall Plan,” a Humanitarian program our proud island of PUERTO RICO, a U.S. Territory since… 1898, located only\u00a02,506 kilometers (1,557 miles) away fom Washington D.C., desperately needs RIGHT NOW!\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

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Over There – James Cagney<\/h1>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Y2ktNsYMaag<\/a><\/p>\n

From the film “Yankee Doodle Dandy” James Cagney and Frances Langford portray George M. Cohan<\/b> and Nora Bays. James Cagney War time short<\/p>\n