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MY NEED TO FLY, FINAL PART

December 16, 2024 at 3:28 pm Leave a comment

                     MY NEED TO FLY, FINAL PART

The thoughts behind the birth of this piece is that my love for aircraft still remains and I read extensively about the subject. My reading includes a great deal of reading about World War II. I had been reading articles about German pilots during that war and could not believe how they could fly for that monster, Hitler. How could they do that? Then I realized they were flying because of their love for flying, not for Hitler. I came to this conclusion upon studying my own experience with flying.

I was learning to fly during the Viet Nam War. And never once considered the merits of that war. A war which many, back then, thought to be unjust. And how history has proved them to be right. But I wanted to learn to fly, and that desire clouded my thoughts about the situation the country was involved in during that period. So, in reality, I came to realize that there is little difference between me and those German pilots. The desire to fly was primary. 

Entry filed under: BIO, memoir, Walt Trizna, Walt Trizna's Stories. Tags: aviation, book review, book reviews, books, historical-fiction, Viet Nam War, Walt Trizna, World War II.