Today,
I stand corrected. In a posting a few days back on the new Pope, I wrote that ”he was a passionate member of Hitler Jugend Luftwaffe…”. Apparently, he wasn`t. Lennard, at DAMIJWH, who I consider a very trusted authority when it comes to history, and especially questions about WWII, writes at his blog today, that this – The Pope being a passionate Hitler Jugend, simply isn`t true. No further explanation from me, just ten ave marias and a recommadation of reading Lenanrds blog if you want to know how the it really went down.
The Pope do – however I`ll say defending myself – today represent approaches to moral and ethic issues that is not far awy from those of nationalsocialism per se.

So, today, I`ll pause the aggressive pessimism, flash my ambivalent relation to war, as I yesterday took the boys to “The Dream Machine” event at the Half Moon Bay Airstrip. For once it wasn’t so much the collection of beautiful musclecars that pulled me in, but more the fact that there was an airshow, including WWII fighterplanes, among those:
The Mustang P 51, Wildcat (predecessor to the Hellcat), B-25 bomber and a B-17 bomber “The Flying Fortress”, a german Messerschmidt 109, and a YAK (Russian figterplane), and then some.

It was a beautiful day. Especially the P-51`s made a spectacular show. 4 of them flying in formation, 30 feet of the ground, then acting out fighting routines higher up and so….

As I said before. who can truly be a pacifist? Yesterday I just felt...13... and lucky for having been born on the right side of the tracks.




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