The Yellow Star

Easter Monday 2026

Those points of no return just keep piling up for France, and for those other former Allies from World War II.  It’s gotten to the point where these National Cowards ought to wear Brownshirts, just to remind the world of their true selves.

When I first began my journey to write THE DAWN, during the scary days and nights after 9/11, I paid particularly close attention to the European Allies from World War II.

Yes, I said to Self, they’ve always been stinkers.

The sight of Dominique de Villepin, and the lousy knot in his tie, before the august debating society of the Security Council of the United Nations, was enough to fuel me for the many words, a million or so, that became THE DAWN.

To this day, I can still become incensed at the obscene unfairness of any nation attempting to pull a very rank rank on the United States to prevent us from defending our nation.

It’s one thing for any group of feckless fonctionnaires to decide to let hordes of barbarians into their country for cheap labor, and call it the Civilized, Progressive, Enlightened, Non-Racist, Multi-Cultural Ascendency that We, the Rubes in the USA cannot possibly comprehend.

It’s quite another thing for any nation, but especially a country that the USA saved from yet another appalling exercise in self-aggrandizing self-destruction — to put the drop on that sovereign nation in order to thwart, bollox and otherwise prevent military action to defend itself.

The arrogance, the orgeuil, the stupidity, the folly, the blindness — never seem to end Over There.

While Over Here, this Lone Superpower goes it alone — cause we’ve been forced to.  We never abandoned Western Europe.  Those countries abandoned the USA, quite a long time ago.  Our national heroes are merely stating the obvious, which, for too long, has been an act of defiance against the putrid propagandists formerly known as The Media.

They oughta get the Swastika pinned on their derrieres.

From

THE DAWN - Chapter 67

The thin lips of Artur nonetheless twitched in a faint smile as he recalled the words of Guillaume.  This Frenchman had proudly announced that, strictly for reasons of security which could affect their mission, he was ceasing publication of his journal after the June issue.  He added, in a humble afterthought:

“First, I convinced myself of the truth which is, of course, essential as a starting point.”

Artur now suddenly jerked his head as he heard the voice of Camille.  It was sardonic and simmering with disgust.

“This information is announced in this issue of Pour La Victoire.  You may not be aware of it, Artur.  The Vichy Ordinance of 29 May 1942 states that Jews must wear the Yellow Star in the Occupied Zone.  At least Vichy has refused to impose the Star on Jews in the Unoccupied Zone,” Camille said with acerbic sarcasm.  “I wonder what Laval bargained for with that sudden and unexpected reversal of policy.  Of course, it will come to nothing.  No matter what Laval does, c’est de la camelote, ça.”  It’s all trash.

The image of a yellow star formed in the mind of this U.S. Army colonel.  His eyes became distressed.  He’d read the latest Vichy statute: “It is a six-pointed star with the dimensions of the palm of a hand . . .”

The French penchant for specificity had been rigorously applied within this latest statute that was aimed at French Jews.

Until that date, there had been at least 26 laws and 24 decrees from Vichy regarding Jews in France.  All of them stripped those Jews of civil rights and their businesses, effectively turning them into second-class citizens.  They now would be marked by the Yellow Star for round-ups and deportation to the death camps.

Camille, Artur, and Guillaume had all noticed that those Vichy laws just kept coming, with ever more bizarre wordings, as this horrid regime tried zealously to keep up with the Nazis in their quest to eliminate the Jews from the face of the earth.

Artur said nothing to Camille of his knowledge of these Vichy laws.  He knew that their intent was to deprive native French Jews, as well as other Jews in France, of liberty and life.  It was an atrocity, committed by the State of France, currently embodied by Vichy.  No wonder Charles de Gaulle was insisting that he assumed France!

Artur had learned from Guillaume that Jewish children over the age of six were now required by French law to wear the Yellow Star.  This star of infamy had to be solidly sewn to clothing and, above all, be visible on the left side of the chest, somewhere in the vicinity of the heart.  The manufacture of nearly a half a million Stars of David was rapidly taking place.

The Star of David, or Shield of David, did not shield Jews from the authorities in France.  Tragically, many French Jews still believed that those civil potentates would protect them from the horrors occurring elsewhere throughout Europe.

This American military man was cognizant of the vicious collaboration that was taking place between the Vichy regime and the Nazis on a whole host of decisions.  He was not aware that a little over two months earlier, on 27 March of this eventful year, 1942, the first deportation of Jews from France to Auschwitz had occurred.

That date was only two days after Artur had met Guillaume and they’d begun to work together to accomplish Operation Merle.  That date marked only one of many points of no-return for Vichy France.