XPost: rec.aviation.piloting, or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "gatt"  wrote:   
      
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   > "Lobby Dosser"  wrote in message   
   > news:4l87h.4486$ZN1.4269@trndny03...   
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   >>> The Hawker Hunter is a lovely aircraft, is it not?  That one won't   
   >>> be replaced any time soon, certainly.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Yep. And your Very First Thought was for the aircraft.   
   >   
   >   
   > What's more important to the average American?  The Declaration of   
   > Independence or the guard standing near it protecting it with his   
   > life?   
      
   I'd be willing to bet that the guard's Job Description does NOT include   
   protecting it with his life.   
      
   What's more important, the document or the principles?   
      
   >   
   > The crash of a rare or unique plane diminishes aviation's physical   
   > history.   
      
   So What!   
      
   > If the Spirit of St. Louis fell off its cables and crushed a   
   > tourist standing under it, America would not remember the name of the   
   > tourist, but they would remember that the Spirit of St. Louis had   
   > fallen from the ceiling.   
   >   
   > I don't saying so slights the value of the victims lives at all.   
   > There's nothing the pilot could have done to save himself but not fly   
   > that day.   
      
   Then, of course, it set a couple homes on fire. Fuck the plane!   
      
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