"Lobby Dosser" wrote in message
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The Hawker Hunter is a lovely aircraft, is it not? That one won't be
replaced any time soon, certainly.


Yep. And your Very First Thought was for the aircraft.


What's more important to the average American? The Declaration of
Independence or the guard standing near it protecting it with his life?

The crash of a rare or unique plane diminishes aviation's physical history.
If the Spirit of St. Louis fell off its cables and crushed a tourist
standing under it, America would not remember the name of the tourist, but
they would remember that the Spirit of St. Louis had fallen from the
ceiling.

I don't saying so slights the value of the victims lives at all. There's
nothing the pilot could have done to save himself but not fly that day.

-c