Eric,
I couldn't agree more. So the sarcasm of the statement may have not been apparent but trust me it is there! The point I was trying to make is that flying around or working on a WWII airplane is no more or less dishonorable than wearing WWII vintage military uniforms for display purposes. You don't have to "earn" the right to fly your airplane anymore than anyone has to "earn" the right to display a WWII uniform by wearing it. They are simply artifacts to be owned by people to be used as they please. The military sold uniforms, equipment, and airplanes for pennies on the dollar to civilians and they certainly didn't think anyone had to earn them.
I won't trivialize the efforts by the glorious men who fought the war becuase they are super heros in my book but plenty of civilians spent plenty of their hard earned tax dollars to buy the stuff and plenty of oil rig drillers, ship workers, machine operators, steel workers worked pretty darn hard in dangerous jobs to get the war won as well yet we don’t hold a hard hat to this mystical place of honor that nobody can wear without “tarnishing” the efforts that these folks made. By the way you don’t earn a uniform, they give them to you in boot camp, I know I’ve been there, and all I had to do was pass a physical and sign on the dotted line. Anyone that thinks you are tarnishing the sacrifices that veterans have made by wearing a uniform has a pretty low opinion of what those folks did. What they did can never be tarnished.
Ryan
EDowning wrote:
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You wern't in WWII so why fly around in the airplanes
To respond directly to your foolish statement, It doesn't HAVE to have anything to do with history. They are fun to fly and that's enough. If others wish to make something more out of it, it's thier perogative to do so. No requirement on the rest of us to do anything more than have fun, unless we choose to do so.
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