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To: iowamark

Just don’t name it after a German Field Marshall.


22 posted on 01/05/2013 11:51:19 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: Uncle Chip
Just don’t name it after a German Field Marshal.

My father never forgot seeing the Graf Zeppelin--named for a German nobleman--that was older and somewhat smaller than the one named for the field marshal. The airship stopped at Los Angeles International Airport in 1929 as part of its round-the-world flight.

31 posted on 01/05/2013 1:15:16 PM PST by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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