Mad Doug Biker
Banned from every bar in the Galaxy
- Location
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I agree, but it is the sheer myopia of history that gets me and the fact that people practically go on about Spitfires as if they were the only ones that did anything..... Except for Lancasters and The Memphis Belle and co of course - Everyone else just sat about twiddling their thumbs apparently. It is all very well being glad you are alive, but imagine having everything you have done being overshadowed and discarded, sometimes in a single stroke by a piece of propoganda, a myth, a legend, a story, whatever you want to call it.
It is a bit like the thing of being in North Africa before going up though Italy, the hell of Monte Casino etc..... And what do people only remember? D - Day!
It is a hangover from the old Propoganda as others have said, but it seems people really do beleive it some times, and I don't see anyone trying to change things.
That is the problem with history I guess, it is often written by the victors and things can be edited in or out or talked down or up, and we have witnessed such a thing here. Heck only knows what people will be taught about it all in 100 years time if we can't even get it right now!
Oh and seemingly it annoyed people at the time too by the way, so it started almost immediately.
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