Oh please Jeeze.
First of all a thank you falls hollow when your country is dealing in black market oil with a tyrannt.
The only 'thank you' which France could offer worthy of the sacrifice of our young men's blood, was a commitment from France to oppose the same type of tyranny that our men freed you from.
France failed in this. France has repeatedly failed in this. Not content to merely fail to oppose Nazis in other lands, France has actively supported these tyrannts. Selling them needed arms. Colluding to have UN regiments, designed to curtail Dictators perfidy, removed for sake of filthy lucor.
Spending the past fifty years propagandising her population to see America as the tyrannt. Deriding our attempts to combat the communists while coloring America as the aggressor.
Ask the Poles, ask the Czech, ask the Romanian, ask the German, ask the Hungarian, who was the conquorer? Ask the Russian, when did their vote began to mean something and why?
We have been wronged by the French establishment. We have been vilified without cause. America is scorned for being Isolationist in one breath, then scorned for being interventionist in the next. Why should we ask counsil with a 'friend' when we know already what their position will be. The French position has been the same for the last 50 years. Which ever way America goes they go the other.
We don't need to ask France.