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Craig · 16 April 2002, 02:15 PM

Some things never change.

I personally doubt that BB performed "that famous raid", and that his, and the scores of most British Empire aces are wildly innacurrate. I do so because of the lack of evidence that they were accurate, and the ample evidence that they were inaccurate.

BUT, that's beside the point, which is: why is it that so many Forumites, who distrust their own "gummint" in their own time, (at least, prior to 9-11) somehow find it okay to trust the Britsh government of 1917 so blindly? I refer to the "he had a VC, so therefore he was honorable" tack. What's WITH that? Is it really inconcievable that he was awarded the VC without really earning it?

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Craig Forum Ace Contributor Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Jollyville, Texas Posts: 1,255	Some things never change. I personally doubt that BB performed "that famous raid", and that his, and the scores of most British Empire aces are wildly innacurrate. I do so because of the lack of evidence that they were accurate, and the ample evidence that they were inaccurate. BUT, that's beside the point, which is: why is it that so many Forumites, who distrust their own "gummint" in their own time, (at least, prior to 9-11) somehow find it okay to trust the Britsh government of 1917 so blindly? I refer to the "he had a VC, so therefore he was honorable" tack. What's WITH that? Is it really inconcievable that he was awarded the VC without really earning it? __________________ "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." - Denis Diderot