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Originally posted by Keith Webb
I've started to put a list of reasons why this should be done, and I'd be interested to hear your perspective on it and to add more good reasons to do this.
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Anything that helps the kids to get their thumbs out of their GameBoys, forget their bling-blingity, hip-hoppity, Snoop-droopity, rap-crappity world of instant gratification is a worthy cause!
Tomorrow on Maury Povich: Hoo da baby daddy?
Alajuwon, you are not the father!
I've been privileged to meet Franz Stigler, a fellow member of the R.C.A.F. Association several times. Franz flew a Bf. 109 with 6/JG 27 during the war and is the subject of a famous painting by Robert L. Harper titled : "The Ultimate Honor." Franz came upon a lone B-17F that had just been savagely mauled by no less than 15 german fighters. The B-17 had also received severe damage from flak over Bremen. Almost half the crew was dead or wounded. Instead of finishing the B-17 off, Franz flew alongside the bomber, visually inspecting it and saw gunners slumped over their machine guns and that the plane was virtually a sitting duck. Instead of finishing it off, Franz saluted the crew, rolled his fighter over and flew away. My point in mentioning this? To read a story such as this is interesting, but truly, just another story among thousands. To hear it being told by one of the participants the story becomes riveting and one that will be remembered throughout your life. So Keith, it is well worth the effort to preserve stories such as this, as told by the veterans themselves.
I also have met Hans Belm, an Obergefreiter of the Heere and who was wounded on the Ostfront and became one of the few to escape Stalingrad. But thats a story for another day.
Keep up the good work, it's truly a noble effort.
CHIMO!