My eulogy for the planes and pilots we lost at the Wings Over Dallas warbirds show November 2022.

Assorted Musings from an Unknown Historian
Bourbon, Books, and Bemusement
My eulogy for the planes and pilots we lost at the Wings Over Dallas warbirds show November 2022.
We as a species have *always* romanticized wartime figures, from the classic “Knight in Shining Armor” trope to putting fighter aces in movies and on postcards. Who in our lifetimes is more worthy of such treatment than President Volodomyr Zelensky, who refuses to bow to a 21st century tyrant? But wait – is it even healthy to create heroes in such times?
Joe Schmoo and criticizing history’s greats. Knock it off, junior, you’re just irritating the adults.
The patriot Edward Snowden gives an interview-from-exile. Some thoughts and a few links. Listen and get mad!
Putin exercises some of his own “alternative facts” in regards to Russo-Polish relations and that pesky year 1939.
Why the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was necessary.