Godwin's Law Repealed

oops....time of broadcast 10:05 am eastern

Yes he was and if memory serves me he was also a scratch golfer. On a little side note at the Duxford Air Show a few years back I was standing in front of a display case with a Bader momento in it. It was a piece of a Messerschmitt that Bader had shot down and his wing had it mounted on a plaque for Bader. There were two Germans looking over my shoulder and they were some Pi&&ed that that war plaque was on display. Go figure, eh. What did they expect?

Germans seem as a culture to be very outspoken in public about things that transgress their sense of propriety.

I've seen the same thing in Arizona. Lots of German tourists go to Tombstone to see the OK Corral for some reason, and there's a gun shop in the tourist-trap part of town. They get all a-twitter when they see actual guns on display, and the men puff and pout and say it isn't right and so forth. But they do it -outside- the shop, because they don't want to tangle antlers with the armed and presumed to be dangerous shop owner.

Europussies, basically. Shop owner finds their reaction hilarious, I talked to him about it at some length one lazy afternoon. He does almost all his business in hats and so forth, the guns are mostly atmosphere. Euroweenies love to come and touch an Actual Handgun! then they buy a Genuine Frontier Cowboy Hat and some jerky, with a selfie to prove They Were There.

Same thing as Canadians who visit the Black Forest and buy Genuine Lederhosen, except backwards.

No war trophys in Germany....those two were not sore losers...they just considered it in bad taste........

My experience with Germans is those now on pension don't wantta talk about it....collective guilt?

Those German under retirement age lean left and the younger the lefter....

Those born in the 70s remember the Berlin Wall....and the Soviets....not Russians...Soviets.

I think there's a Sea Fury at the Canadian Warplane Heritage. I used to see it fly over my house, its some guy's private hotrod.

Colour me green with envy.

Re ; Douglas Bader, when I was a kid in the 1950's, before TV, we listened to a radio program called "Douglas Bader,The Legless Air Ace". I think it was a British program. We kids were fascinated by the story.

Bader and all the rest were household names in my home, including two of my Mother's classmates who were members of the "Dam Buster's" squadron.

Neither came home.

I picked up a great "T" shirt in commemoration of the 'Dam Busters' at the Nanton Museum last year. Also a Spit and Mossie "T" as well.

That is a funny story about the German tourists and the gun shop. One time we were entertaining clients from Europe in Texas. One of them, straight up, and this guy was former military, was afraid of getting shot while getting off the plane. We took them to a restaurant for a gigantic steak where there were TVs on all the walls showing westerns, lots of shootouts. I told them they were the security cameras from the parking lot.