Well said Santa.
Not to be random, but a while back during my junior year in high school I sent an email from home to a bunch of my friends criticizing the way the new band director ran the marching band.
We had been literally ran into the ground by the new guy, and his immaturity (24 year old, straight out of UMass and replacing our more popular director who was let go among even more controversy) really showed.
During band camp over the summer, most of the low brass went around with our arms up in the Nazi salute, and we considered ourselves in a boot camp.
(admittedly, this was poor taste)
Anyway, in this email, I said that the band was run like the Third Reich and comparatively the director, his wife, and his assistant were almost like Hitler, Eva Braun, and Hermann Goering.
Big mistake. Yes, I know, it was a ranting email because he ticked me off a couple days before by poking fun at me during a game. As I said, his immaturity showed through his actions those days.
One of my friends took offense to the email, printed it out, forwarded it to the entire band, and brought it to school. To make a long story short I was suspended for 2 days for it.
This brought up a gigantic human rights fight with the ACLU getting involved and the local paper slamming the actions of the school. Yes, it was a childish email but it was a personal one to my friends and I will always stand by the argument that I had every right to call him anything I wanted to. It was my whoopeeed opinion and I wasn't stating it as fact. Eventually the school erased the suspension from my record and the director and I became close friends.
What hurt the most during all of this was an editorial in another paper slamming me for not understanding the Nazi regime. It was a bias, one-sided piece of crap piece and the author didn't even leave their name, just put the name of the paper instead. What they failed to realize was that I actually did understand 1940's Germany and my comparison to the band was a relation of how Germany treated its soldiers.
Anyway, I guess that's somewhat related to the current conversation but I don't think that Santa was trying to spread Nazi ideas through his post. We're all flying planes that killed and were killed, and so there has to be some degree of understanding that this game has little to do with the actual war. We're all geeks of one sort or another and this fantasy world relives the pinnicle of air combat history.
And that post was worth a chuckle, too.
[This message has been edited by Moose11 (edited 01-19-2001).]