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At 08:17 AM 5/28/2002 -0500, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>I sat in a B-29 and a B-24 this weekend with pilots
>whose arm patches read "Confederate Air Force" but
>whose pamphlets read "Commemorative Air Force" and
>wondered about the rights of the men who flew these
>to claim a name of their own choosing without being
>harrassed by those who didn't.
I just read an article about the name change. This group was originally
named Confederate Air Force and seems to have very recently change the name
to be less questionable. Evidently they were finding that some corporate
sponsors didn't like the "Confederate" portion of the name and as such
would not be a sponsor. Doesn't matter how well the overall name is known,
the work that is done by the organization, etc - it was only the name that
mattered to them!
..dan
>Who is John Galt?
>
>len
>
>From: John Evdemon [mailto:jevdemon@acm.org]
>
>On 24 May 2002 at 9:37, Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
>
> > What you want is technical elitism
> > and in that, you are a lot like the John Galt character of
> > Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, believing that the only choice
> > of the technically advanced and sophisticated is to go to
> > their own enclave until the world failing without their
> > sage advice comes to beg them to rule.
>
>Correction - "Atlas Shrugged". The leaders left because they refused
>to compromise their beliefs and the adopt the popular socialist
>policies/beliefs of the time (e.g. those who do well are punished the
>most, etc).
>
>Disturbingly fitting for our times, imho.
>
>Sorrry to wander off-topic.
>
>Who is John Galt?
>
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