The Revolution Will Not Be Televised wrote:

On 01 Jul 2003 16:11:57 GMT, (ArtKramr) wrote:

I was the navigator as well as the Bombardier.

Sorry, I thought I was in your killfile. Did you make your own maps,
or did others do that for you? Did you make your B-26 by hand in your
own garage, or did others do that for you? Who taught you to navigate
or use the Norden, or did you invent mathematics, geometry,
cartography and precision bombsight engineering yourself?

You've made a fair point about personal experience versus historical
record, but you're really starting to sound asinine in this effort.

I think all will agree there is a place for history and a place for
personal experience. We can probably all agree reading something and
personally experiencing something are not equivalent.

We can probably all agree that being told our knowledge is inadequate
because it was not obtained by personal experience, or that your personal
experience is "wrong" or not general, based on someone's readings, can be
annoying in the extreme.

Leave it at that and move on. No killfiling required from anyone!


SMH