Persuasive Essay Topics of Today and Yesterday: The Aeroplane
Is To Die For
Persuasive Essay Topics of Today and Yesterday is living
proof that there really is nothing new under the sun. Once upon
a time, it was fashionable to commend and congratulate the
honored enemy war dead as it was to honor the perished peregrine
falcons of the home team. It was the age of the chivalry of the
mighty pen.
The World of the Now
It is hard to get a sense of what would be the outcome in the
decidedly lunatic leftist fringe liberal news media, were an air
war to break out. Would they cheer our side or their
side? It is quite honestly, a toss up. My betting money would be
that they would kiss the enemy and cuss the friend.
Regardless, it's all bets off, because there aren't any
decent air wars left in the world. The air is still one place
where America clings to superiority. Well, that and under the
water. Oh, and on top of the water.... and of course in nuclear
and conventional warfare too. But our tale is about the air, not
the oceany wet stuff, or the grubbly ground stuff.
Historical material from the historical pages of the
Leavenworth Echo. Rewritten, leaving the essence of the article
April 14, 1916 Staff Writer
Many a Sensation Is Produced When Bird Men Meet In
Air—Participant Could Give Story With Imperishable
Vividness—Often Near Death.
London.—Europe's war has produced conditions that make
aeroplaning the grimmest adventure known to man. War to man's
oldest game. Aviation is his latest. Each day Intrepid airmen,
under twenty-five years of age for the most part, like hawks
make course above roof, tent, rampart and battlefield to thrust
suddenly below premeditated
thunderbolts
of death.
They fight duels in the air with other indomitable young men
in enemy aeroplanes. When something goes wrong a mile or more
above earth on a mild June evening in time of peace a queer
sensation is produced. The percussive crack heard by thousands
of air men above the European battle lines these days and nights
in all kinds of weather produces a sensation much more queer.
A lieutenant just out of his teens, a wing broken, clinging
to his duty, his ears deafened, little knowing whether it is the
whistling storm he hears or the whir of shot —thousands of such
men can testify that an experience of the sort is a thing of
imperishable vividness.
Cowdin and Thaw, among numerous Americans who have joined the
fighting air men, can tell many such tales. Boelke, Immelmann,
Guynemer, Bone, among the newcomers, and Vedrines, Beaumont and
Garros, to mention a few of the veterans, are making
ineffaceable records. These men use the aeroplane, or avion, as
they call It, not merely as a scouting vehicle, but as a deadly
instrument of offense.
Lieutenant Boelke of the German army recently brought down
his thirteenth machine over the Forges forest lieutenant Baron
yon Aithaus brought down his fourth aeroplane over enemy lines
west of Lyons. The element of sport enters even into aeroplane
warfare. After all, thinks the aviator, the shame is not so much
in being caught as being caught by a mere amateur with a paltry
record of two or three captures to his name.
Lieutenant Immelmann recently bagged his tenth enemy
aeroplane. The gallantry and bravery of Lieutenant Warenford
Illustrates the spirit of these European aviators. Single handed
he attacked a Zeppelin and destroyed it. A few days later,
accompanied by the American writer Needham, he made a pleasure
trip, and both men were killed in landing.
On Intimate terms with death were those fifty air men who
fought the greatest aerial battle of the war recently when the
allied aeroplanes raided Mulhausen. Five German aeroplanes and
three French fell, the occupants of all being killed.
On the outbreak of the war Adolphe Pegood, the famous French
aviator who gained renown in 1913 when he originated the feat of
flying upside down in an aeroplane and looping the loop joined
the French squadron and was often mentioned for valor. He
startled the American people when he came to this country and
did the loop the loop. His daring feats will go down in
aeronautic history.
Here at Persuasive Essay Topics of of Today and Yesterday
we're undoubtedly pleased to bring you the great news about the
wonders of flying. Folks from 1910 have mostly gone underground,
but once they were flying high and rocketing around at tens of
miles per hour. Actually, walking wasn't crowded, and only the
most foolhardy would even think of lifting off the ground in one
of those goofy looking flying machines. My how times change! To
fly in those days was to know the Face Of God...personally, and
in short order. Yet, the boys went up, and came down with
regularity. They called it gallantry and bravery. It was all fun
and games until it was no longer fun and games...
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