[Milsurplus] OT Aerospace Archive to Donate

[J. Forster]

A friend of mine has a small panel, roughly the size of a common piece of
paper. It has some push button switches on it.

Is it just "stuff" that should go to the dump?

What if I told you it was a brassboard from Apollo?

-John

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> ----- 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
>
>
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