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It's never too late to change
The older you get, the quicker you are to see silliness in
the world and the more likely to give a shrug and accept things.
Well, unless you are me that is.
It seems that one young mob of Europeans has finally cottoned
on to an idea that should have been acted upon almost 60 years
ago.
To whom do we refer? Well, the Germans of course. They are
one of the youngest nations in Europe and in their troubled
youths have caused a bit of strife.
Their teenage years betwen 1914 and 1918 were not pretty
and the Deutchland Uber Alles (Roughly Germany Above All)
mindset led to some serious nastiness in World War One.
You'd have thought they would have learned, but no, as adults
the Huns again flexed their considerable military muscle and
flattened most of Europe before being smacked silly by the
good guys. Britain, Australia, New Zealand and, of course,
the Americans.
One of the tools of their reshaping Europe in a 1000-year
state was the Luftwaffe, or airforce, which sent out its aircrews
to bomb the crap out of just about everywhere. London, Rotterdam,
Warsaw and Guernica being fairly prominent names.
Still, the old Luftwaffe didn't commit quite so many atrocities
as other branches of the Hun Hordes and so after World War
2 the Luftwaffe kept its identity and name.
Until now.
Seems that 58 years later, the Germans have come up with
the idea - bright sparks that they are - that perhaps other
people may not be as fond of the Luftwaffe as they are and
are going to take the name off official government aircraft.
Some critical types may view the Germans as insensitive,
but I reckon it showed a bit of style for the top Hun, Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder, to tour Europe in a plane that reminded
every other leader of how the Luftwaffe flattened some of
their most beautiful cities.
In keeping with the Teutonic tradition of running sentences
into one word here's my suggestion for the re-branded Luftwaffe.
How about Don'tMentionDerBombingPlanesWe'reNiceGuysNowMyStrudels?
Bit long, maybe someone has a better suggestion.
Grumpy
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