It's kind of funny, really. When I remodel my Fly Baby, I'd like to paint it like a Mitsubishi Claude, a pre-war Japanese fighter. But I know there's still considerable anti-Japanese feeling from the war, and don't want to offend anyone.


Rudyard Kipling, the British author ("The Jungle Book," "Captains Courageous," etc.) lived in Vermont for several years in the 1890s. He later commented how many people still had anti-British sentiment left over from the Revolutionary War... 110 years earlier.

Mind you, the American Civil War (aka, "The War Between the States," "The Late Unpleasantness," or "The War of Northern Aggression") still generates some ill feelings, too......

Ron "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight!" Wanttaja