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Darryl · 26 December 2000, 01:59 PM

>>>>If you get away with it, you're heroic.If it kills you, you're foolhardy.

I think Barrett has probably pegged it best right there. In the heat of battle I don't think any of them INTENTIONALLY took risks that they KNEW bordered on suicidal. From the cold hard light of day one might well assess them that way later. However a 19/20 year old with his blood up is not apt to make such assessments. Terror or its close cousin rage cuts in and there you go.

I saw "Malice" again last night.....abysmal movie with that red headed Australian trollop and the equally untalented Alec Baldwin in it.....Baldwin at one time is accused of having a God Complex. This probably applied to most pilots. But it is not the same as foolhardy. The greatest example of GC is, IMHO,

René Fonck. He survived the war and was apparently very careful (and lucky) in combat.

Luke routinely took huge risks and had a shelf life comensurate with this. Did he consider they were huge? (the risks...not..oh, never mind)

Eye of the beholder to a certain extent. The ones who survived were right.

regards and the best for the new millenium.

Darryl

26 December 2000, 01:59 PM	#5 (permalink)
Darryl Forum Ace Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: Western Australia Posts: 921	>>>>If you get away with it, you're heroic.If it kills you, you're foolhardy. I think Barrett has probably pegged it best right there. In the heat of battle I don't think any of them INTENTIONALLY took risks that they KNEW bordered on suicidal. From the cold hard light of day one might well assess them that way later. However a 19/20 year old with his blood up is not apt to make such assessments. Terror or its close cousin rage cuts in and there you go. I saw "Malice" again last night.....abysmal movie with that red headed Australian trollop and the equally untalented Alec Baldwin in it.....Baldwin at one time is accused of having a God Complex. This probably applied to most pilots. But it is not the same as foolhardy. The greatest example of GC is, IMHO, René Fonck. He survived the war and was apparently very careful (and lucky) in combat. Luke routinely took huge risks and had a shelf life comensurate with this. Did he consider they were huge? (the risks...not..oh, never mind) Eye of the beholder to a certain extent. The ones who survived were right. regards and the best for the new millenium. Darryl __________________ Nunquam obliviscar Not here are the goblets glowing, Not here is the vintage sweet; 'Tis cold as our hearts are growing, And dark as the doom we meet. But stand to your glasses, steady! And soon shall our pulses rise: A cup to the dead already- Hurrah for the next that dies!