"palfrey" = medieval warhorse; charger

[Wilson Gray]

Back in the day, the Army shuttle from now-defunct Andrews Barracks to
now-defunct Tempelhof Air Force Base left from a stop on
Freiherr-von-Richthofen-Strasse. Of course, Manfred Albrecht may not
have been the only Freiherr von Richthofen deemed worthy of having a
street in Berlin named after him.

-Wilson

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Jonathan
Lighter<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, some aviators demonstrated some chivalry on the ground. When the Red
> Baron was shot down behind British lines, an RFC officer ordered a full
> military funeral for him as an honorable and outstanding fellow aviator.
> That sort of thing.
>
> CNN was unvailable to poll the feelings of other airmen at the event.
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> JL
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:
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>> At 7/9/2009 07:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>> >She may have strained for "palfrey" because it sounds so much more
>> medieval.
>> >As it relates to WW1 aviators, the knightly image itself has been trite
>> for
>> >over ninety years now.
>> >
>> >And it was not true of aerial combat anyway.
>>
>> Are you telling Virginia that Snoopy is not real? Â How cruel! Â My
>> (World War I) hero!
>>
>> Joel
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