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Happy Independence Day Patriots!

And to my fellow conventionally attractive and wise Paid Subcribers...

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Tiberium_Fan's avatar

Happy 4th of July.

Currently reading A. Scott Berg's biography of Charles Lindbergh. On the one hand, it really is a shame that society has cast him into the dustbin. I would argue that by the reception he got, Lindbergh was probably one of, if not -the-, most famous Americans of the first half of the 20th century; maybe the whole thing. The level of adoration which he received upon his return is unlike anything I've ever heard of, for anyone. I'm not even sure Neil Armstrong received this level of praise and attention.

On the other, I think perhaps it truly is illustrative of how pernicious the press is and how long the forces that want to destroy this country have been at work.

Lindbergh wasn't even pro-Nazi, he genuinely believed that the U.S. was ill-equipped to enter WW2; and the early failures of the U.S. entry to the war vindicated him. The Marines went up against the Japanese with some units still using Philippine War era Krag-Jorgensen rifles, and the lion's share using WW1 vintage Springfields. Yet he has gone down in history as an equal to people like Fritz Kuhn.

If there was any single man who represented the ideal, the apex, of the 20th Century American, it was Lindbergh. Salvaging his character is a much needed step. To quote Orson Welles on Lindbergh: "There are never many, never enough of them. But there are men who are born into the world with a gaze fixed on the widest possible horizon. Men who can see without strain beyond the most distant horizon, into that unconquered country we call the future."

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