As a very late baby boomer, I grew up a Redskins fan, despite two decades of recent disappointment.  In the late 1980s, as an Army officer, deployed at Fulda Germany, in the "gap" through which the Warsaw Pact might pour, I cheered the deployment of the first Apache helicopter gunships.  The Apache was to be the V Corps commander's ace in the hole: 54 airplanes that could, on their own, devastate a Red Army tank assault.  Since then, Apaches have blasted various bad guys throughout the world, flown by courageous pilots speaking English, Hebrew, and Arabic.  And that is in addition to occasionally cheering on various other athletic teams, called Indians, Braves, Sioux, Seminoles, ad infinitum, or admiring lots of other U.S. helicopters, or the Tomahawk cruise missiles. Today's kids will certainly never appreciate these things, since by the time they are adults, Native American activists and leftist political correctness will have erased this...(Read Full Post)