It wouldn't have been flagged to pieces, that's for sure! As to factually correct, I dunno, I think you're falling for the same kind of stereotype that some Am

It wouldn't have been flagged to pieces, that's for sure! As to factually correct, I dunno, I think you're falling for the same kind of stereotype that some Americans ascribe to the French. France's critical contribution to the American War of Independence is taught in schools. Sometimes in schools named after Lafayette, or in counties, towns, near streets or squares named after him. As is the fact that one of America's great symbols, the Statue of Liberty is a gift from France, etc, etc. This all reminds me of a bit from David Sedaris's humor/satirical book Me Talk Pretty One Day which I'm going to paste in here so we can wrap this up on a lighter note: I chickened out, realizing that I was afraid of France. My fear had nothing to do with the actual French people. I didn’t know any actual French people. What scared me was the idea of French people I’d gotten from movies and situation comedies. When someone makes a spectacular ass of himself, it’s always in a French restaurant, never a Japanese or Italian one. The French are the people who slap one another with gloves and wear scarves to cover their engorged hickies. My understanding was that, no matter how hard we tried, the French would never like us, and that’s confusing to an American raised to believe that the citizens of Europe should be grateful for all the wonderful things we’ve done. Things like movies that stereotype the people of France as boors and petty snobs, and little remarks such as “We saved your ass in World War II.” Every day we’re told that we live in the greatest country on earth. “And it’s always stated as an undeniable fact: Leos were born between July 23 and August 22, fitted queen-size sheets measure sixty by eighty inches, and America is the greatest country on earth. Having grown up with this in our ears, it’s startling to realize that other countries have nationalistic slogans of their own, none of which are “We’re number two!”