Good read, Valin. Sometimes it's easy to forget that the people of the mid-East are, at heart, as freedom loving as any. They sometimes just don't know it yet.
In "Serenade to the Big Bird" Bert Stiles, wrote
"People are just people, some good some bad. Until you end up with just people".
"Serenade to the Big Bird"
http://www.acmedepot.com/stiles/index.shtml
Bert Stiles of Denver, Colorado, was one of among many who gave their lives while serving in the U.S. Army Air Forces in WWII, but he was one of a relative few who left a written legacy. His single book, Serenade to the Big Bird, was published posthumously and is broadly regarded as one of the great literary works to emerge from WWII.
Bert Stiles was a writer and a dreamer. He had for his young age an astute sense of his world and the adept ability to convey it through words with honesty, candor, and utmost sincerety. It is our great fortune that much of Bert's written work is available to us today, for through his eyes can we have brought to life a time gone by and an accounting of wartime experiences which most would fail to fully imagine or appreciate.
As a B-17 co-pilot in the 401st Squadron of the 91st Bomb Group of the U.S. Army Eighth Air Force, Bert Stiles flew nearly thirty missions. His driving desire, however, was to fly the P-51 Mustang, and in September, 1944, he transferred to the 505th Squadron of the 339th Fighter Group. On November 26, 1944, Bert Stiles was killed in action when, apparently as a victim of target fixation, his plane crashed as it followed down an enemy FW-190, Stiles' first confirmed kill. This was his sixteenth fighter mission. Bert was 24 years old.
Serenade to the Big Bird had been finished by Bert during his time at a rest home prior to completion of his bombing missions, and was hoped by Bert to be published. The book, which eloquently and emotionally describes the life of Bert and his B-17 crews, was returned to his family and subsequently published, first in England.
Writing was Bert Stiles' passion and intended vocation, but his desire to fly and his sense of duty to his country were to leave us only guessing where Bert's talents would have led him. His life was indeed an unfinished story.
Donaldson with typical lib media self importance.
He's sitting right there with the man who orchestrated the downfall of communism and the Berlin Wall and talks as though no one could have seen it coming. Unbelievable arrogance.
To the libs everything is 20-20 hindsight, they forget the efforts and predictions made by conservative on the forefront of the these noble struggles.