Dave Heil wrote:
wrote:
Dee Flint wrote:
Movies and novels, etc often take artistic license with the facts in order
to produce more impact. That is true of both dramas and comedies. So any
one who relies on such items for their history is going to be using a far
amount of misinformation. Even the news media takes artistic license by the
selection of what facts and speculation to report since they are going for
ratings.
Dee D. Flint, N8UZE
Dee, excellent, excellent post.
That must be why some in this group constantly quote british comedy as
if it were somehow relevant to matters at hand. They get their history
from Monty Python. Telling is their admiration for the contribution(s)
that the ARS made in WWII. Quitepuzzling, since the ARS was shut down
by the US government at the time.
Many radio amateurs made their war contributions as radio operators.
Many became electronics and radio instructors. Many were involved in
radio design and manufacture. Many became involved with Civil Defense
and WERS (War Emergency Radio Service). There is a large amount of
documentation of the efforts of radio amateurs during the Second World
War. Have you read any of it?
Whoa! Talk about brilliant minds! Our posts hit at the same
time...But when I re-read mine, I accidentally "deleted" a paragraph
when I had changed a sentence I wrote prior to posting!
What I had said was that Brian's demonization of some of us who
make reference to contributions made during WW2 doesn't stand the
litmus test of objectivity. The "War Department" and other agencies of
the era went on record as praising the ARRL and it's members for the
contributions you cited, Dave...
Not to forget the sacrifices many Amateurs of the era made on the
battlefield. Many Amateiurs were also sought out for thier skills to
help "flesh out" the military communications infrastructure as
operators, instructors, crypto-operators, Morse intercept operators,
etc etc etc...
So...as I was asking Brian, what's "Quitepuzzling" is is continued
affiliation with Amateur Radio despite his obvious contempt for fellow
Amateurs.
73
Steve, K4YZ