<p>"Good luck, my soldier! You Americans are an extraordinary people. You are complex. We have thought we understood you?but, we do not. We never know what you will do next."<br>I asked my French landlady, who thus responded to the news that I had joined the Foreign Legion, for an explanation. She said:<br>"In the early days of the war, when the Germans advanced upon Paris at the rate of thirty kilometers a day, driving our French people before t...