[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

[David Stinson]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Feher" <n4fs at eozinc.com>

>As Jim said, it is only stuff. 
>People are what is really  important ....

Respectfully, Mike- 
You're correct, and "people" is my point; they are what 
counts, and who a distinctive people and culture are 
is defined by their history, and that history is embodied
in their documents and artifacts.  Without their "stuff,"
they're just more anonymous faces in the herd.

One need not build gas chambers to commit "genocide."
Ask Native Americans about the "civilizing acts" of 
the 1800s; the "stuff" they used to define themselves-
medicine bundles, totems, talismans that had carried 
their memories and stories in some cases for centuries,
were put to the fire.  Their children were removed to 
what was then the equivailent of our political re-education
camps (read "colleges") and forced to "learn about the 
future, not the past."   With the destruction of the artifacts
that defined them as a distinctive culture and people,
whole nations and peoples effectively ceased to exist,
absorbed into today's dull, gray lemming herd, with only
vague shadows and fragmentary memories of what 
made them a unique people.
And they are not alone- Ask the old Soviets about
the peoples they erased.   Ask the Romans and
the Egyptions.  Ask the modern Afgans about their
attempt to erase the Buddist past in their land.

Most stuff is, indeed, just "stuff;"  I sincerely hope that
no copies of "American Idol" survive to shame our time.
But documentation of the progress of technology,
and especially that of progress in space exploration,
is special to Western civilization; 
the rest of Mankind steals most of it from us.
It defines us as a people.  Sending it to the flames
is a shortsighted and stupid crime; an abomination.  
If you could corner one of the little Napoleons in
the establishment who decided "individuals can't 
have any of it" and asked them to justify that policy,
they could not give you a reasoned reply; they will 
invent lame excuses or quote even more arcane 
and pointless regulations which, 
when all the horse crap is washed away,
really mean:  "I'm in charge and I say so, pissant."
The VP mentioned is a minion of that plague, which
will certainly plunge Mankind into the next Dark Age:
an educated idiot in a postion of authority.

73 DE Dave AB5S