Debate and argument mean the same thing... ;)

I fly whatever I fancy but on a lighter note.....

My mother fought with the Greek resistance and my dad was in the Eighth Army under Montgomery in North Africa. During the invasion of Italy my dads unit were shipped to Greece to help re-instate the Greek Monarchy and quell the communist movement - my mother then fought with the communists once the Germans withdrew from Greece though she was more anti Royalist than a communist.

I asked my dad how he met my mum and he told me she chatted him up. Unfortunately for my dad, she was setting him up as he was on guard duty and a bunch of Greek partisans nicked trucks, arms and munitions while distracted - he was court martialled as a result......but hey, they got together anyway, married, had me.....and my brother.

So whatever the politics......I owe my very existence to them......:grin:

errrr, its you doing (trying but not succeeding) the "ignoring" thing though, not them...


no they don't Farber... ;)

Awesome storey See, its like something out of a movie.

:-P

youre like a dentist taking the hipocratic swearing :)

As I'm the OP, may I add the following?

England and Germany have been linked by culture and Royalty long before WW2.

My issue with flying German aircraft over England has nothing to do with Germany. If the aircraft instead of being German had been French, Swiss or Dutch, I would have had the same concerns.

Its the concept of 'flying' an enemy aircraft over your home town that concerns me.

Best Regards,
MB_Avro.

Maybe you just feel the greater sense of immersion flying for your own country over your own soil. So much so that flying for the opposition does not compare.

The Worst mistake this country ever made was the 'entente cordiale' if you ask me. (Sorry, sorry... said I wouldn't post again in this thread, but erm...:lol:.)

After Waterloo, you'd've thought that Britain and Germany would've remained staunch allies in Europe. If they had've, things could have been so, so different.....;)

But of course, if my Auntie had a pair, she'd be my uncle.

I look at it this way. It's all the governments fault we get into these wars not the soldiers who fight them. When I or you are flying over each others towns bombing them we are doing it because our governments have told us to do it. Are fighter pilots going to keep sitting at the card table play gin or scat while bombs are raining down day and night on their towns.....no. There's nothing immoral about that it's the idiots that let the killing go on and on and on. Another thing I always have in the back of my mind is my best friend's mother I could be fighting for her lol

You shouild look up some of Kitchener's antics, especially around the time of the boer wars