Prepare for the colours
Ready sergeant
Attention !
at ease
Chant: "Contre les Viets" (rough translation/interpretation) ♪ O Légionnaires ♪
♪ the fight begins ♪
♪ Pu t in our souls ♪
♪ enthusiasm and valiance ♪
♪ May grenades and rubble rain ♪
♪ Our victory ♪
♪ will shine even brighter ♪
[...]♪And if death strikes us on the way♪[...] ♪ If our bloodied fingers cling on the floor♪
♪ One last dream: farewell, see you tomorrow (?) ♪
♪ We wish to serve as examples (?)♪
♪ O Légionnaires ♪
♪ the fight begins ♪
Company, halt !
Cheers!
To the legion Long live the legion
In 2000 for exemple one of our rosés won a gold medal in Paris' general agricultural competition
which is the ultimate distinction in this domain
My job is to help homeless men become lords again
lords which they sometimes were in the past
And life's hazards led them to become what they are when they arrive here,
that is, homeless men with problems sometimes alcohol induced.
(...) So Mr Pasquel who comes from Boulogne-sur-Mer in the Nord region
who is in the barrack's staff as a house painter
since that is what he was for most of his civilian life
I bid you welcome Mr Pasquel, and let's get to work !
Thank you Commandant (Britain/US: Major)
The rough Indochina combats resulted in injuries, many injuries
Young legionnaires with amputated arms or legs
At the time 70% or more of the legionnaires were German
And many of those German legionnaires couldn't go home, for diverse easily understandable reasons.
This is two pictures on which we can see Mr Freytag in the cockpit of his Messerschmitt 109
He's been credited with 104 kills and been shot down twice himself
I wouldn't want to sadden you but he shot many anglo-saxon pilots down
Everything is handcrafted because the goal is to make the legionnaires work and not to have a big production
(...) and then I became officer and I retired after having commanded two companies
I commanded a company here in metropolitan France and another one in Tahiti
My work ends here and residents passing away are burried here with military honours
Maybe if they weren't pensionaries of this institution,
the vagaries of life would have led them to have much more anonymous burrials but also much lonelier.
The Legion never abandon its own, be it in combat or in life
There you have it all