109 etc. Riat 2010

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Originally Posted by Glider_UK

Well I think i'll hold off posting any more pics then. The next thing we will be bitching about will be the red crosses on tunics from the crusades. Never deny the past but always learn from it. that is my opinion.

Please continue posting your pics, love to see them. This whole swastika discussion that emerges every once in a while here and elswhere is idiotic. Having authentic markings in WW2 era airplane (how authetic the sample picture here was is irrelevant) is a totally different story than having it stiched into the jacket shoulder of a neonazi or whatever.

I can't believe the hysterical reaction even some smart individuals still have on 'forbidden' emblems in historical context. If our way of protecting the ugly part of our history from repeating itself is so much bound on irrelevant details like this we're waaay off the target.

It's like the discussion on immigration in many countries these days: voice any criticism or concern on anything related to that and you're a racists by default who wants to 'close the borders'. After a while in this dialogue the nazi-card is pulled from the deck eventually too.

A good summary of the above is a comment in this thread: "Do you mean you approve of the holocaust?"

WTF?!

Hate to stirr the water of this overdiscussed subject but couldn't help myself even though Blackdog put my thoughts to words pretty well.