Subject: Fly Boy ?????
From: "George Z. Bush" am
Date: 10/23/03 6:00 AM Pacific Daylight Time
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Is it just me, or am I the only one offended by the title "Fly Boy"? Anybody
ever hear of an 18 or 19 year old infantryman called an Infantry Boy, or
Infantry Kid? Or a 17 year old Marine Child?

Fly Boy indeed. They were men grown old before their time making life and
death
decisions, and not always the right ones. To call them "Boys" trivializes
what
they went through.

Call me sensitive, but I'm really offended by that title.

George Z.




It was part of the English language. We were all called Fly Boys since the
earliest days of WW II. Your objejctions come 65 years too late.


Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer