[redstateconfidential]

My favorite "Thunderbird". from Schweinfurt,..Again.

[FlyVet]

I fell in love with that plane as a young teenager after reading a paperback book about it. I wish I could remember which book, but possibly the Ballantine version "B-17- Flying fortress- Ballantine's Illustrated History of the Violent Century; Weapons Book Number 40".

Barely available on Amazon.

So many of us kids back then were fascinated with such things, probably because our parents were kids during that era, and told us about it.

Now, if kids draw pictures of guns and bombs, they get expelled; our teachers never gave it a second thought; boys will be boys; they understood that.

No school shootings back then. Hmmmm.