New York's Finest (it's police) embraced the French symbolically the day or so before 9/11 when they rescued a Statue of Liberty torch ensnared French photographer in a powered paraglider, attempting to get the "perfect photo" of the restored torch with gold leaf the French have provided, the cleaning and other restoration work finally finished. I, who work in the historical archeology of NYC knew some of the people involved. My grandmother Margaret Gregory was once known as "Bedloe's nanny" when she worked for its caretaker as it became the first electrically lit lighthouse in the world on Liberty Island.
The Republicans closed it, refused the free offer of a memorial to the victims of the 9/11 from the French and has made many attacks on French culture since. America has truly forgotten it was people like the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Fleet off Virginia that helped turn both General Lee's loss at Monmouth, New Jersey and General Washington's loss at the "Battle of Long Island" into a victory over the British General Cornwallis in Virginia and Admiral Cornwallis in New York one of whom could be shown with forensics to have been poisoning the king with his wig, perhaps inadvertently.
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