"The Blue Max"

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Hey Shooter,
That last bit you wrote on this thread is beautiful, it gave me chills when I read it. The truth carries weight and is eloquent by nature. And...you know it when you hear it. Well done.

[Shooter]

I'm sorry that I did not notice your comment before, Weldboy. Forgive my oversight.

I don't know if it is profound or not. I am not particularly proud that I feel this way. Indeed, it is a heavy load to carry around. An emotion this intense requires a lot of effort, and I would as soon put it on the curb if I could. But I cannot control the way I feel.

Thanks for your support. Semper Fi!


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[PeterL]

"These days, in WW-II documentaries, all German soldiers are called "Nazis" whether or not they were party members"


That's a trend which began here in Europe. In these days of "Europe re-united" it's considered impolitic to refer to "the Germans" or Germany as "the enemy". Although I am of an age and generation which finds it difficult to express such things in new and different ways, personally I have no deep rooted problem with this as it serves to underline for a younger and perhaps less well informed generation precisely where todays neo-nazis are coming from. Certainly it's preferable to sweeping our collective history under the carpet and pretending it didn't happen.

"The Dawn Patrol" screenplay by John Monk Saunders was both good and original. The problem with it was that what was good was not original and what was original was not good.
Re-read "War Birds" and compare the scene when Springs returns from his crash with that in Dawn Patrol. Then compare most of the other major incidents. You'll begin to get the idea.
Too bad that many of the historians of the original U.S. Cross & Cockade aren't here to enlighten you; they were friends of the subject writers and some of their re-creations of the interviews they had with them reflected Springs' humorous take on the plagiarisms. He didn't give a damn, so I guess I shouldn't, either.
When "historians" go on memory (to save research time while writing a scenario) they quite often confuse incidents they have witnessed with those they have heard about, read about or come by third hand. The older you get, the more pronounced this tendency seems to float to the surface.
Oddly, most of this is caused by constriction of the small blood vessels leading to the brain that can be pinched by the first vertibra. You learned this free, and it cost me thousands of dollars and many hours of physical therapy.