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(ArtKramr) writes:
When the war ended they took Willie away, placed demolition charges under his
spars and blew him up. Then they bulldozed him into a ditch. And he lies buried
over there to this day. I can't help but feel that with Willie a small part of
each of us will always lie over there with him.

I can see how you'd feel that way, Art. But consider this -
Willie's a part of Europe now. I don't know if the Aluminum was
salvages, or his carcass was just used as fill, but either way,
Willie, and by association, you and your crew, and all the other
airplanes and crews who left something over there have left a Western
Europe that's seen a longer periop of peace tha any other time in
their history. We, adn they, may not always agree, but nobody in
France, or Germany, or the Britsh Isles, or the Low Countries, or
anywhere else, is going to sleep tonight worried about their neigbors
invading, or resolving some perceived slight by force of arms.
That is a legacy that was worth fighting for.

(A pacifistic Germany! Who'd have thought it?)

--
Pete Stickney
A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many
bad measures. -- Daniel Webster