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We arrived Friday after that days events and only the crews, vendors, and reenactors were still there. I talked to the local organizer and he said that we could camp in our travel trailer in the parking lot. The reenactors were inside the No Smoking/No Open Flame zone so they didn't have camp fires but did use battery powered lanterns and head lamps. As it got darker and activity at the airport died down (the runway and taxiway lights were turned on by keying a certain frequency on the radio) the glow of, probably, Marana, back lit the WW2 tents, Jeeps, and the tail of the B17. It reminded me of movies I've seen with images like that and it was a startling reminder that scene happened for real 75 years ago. The next morning the reenactors had morning mess served from Mermite containers.
Then the next day I went back 50 years:
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"Hector Lives!"
"The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress." -- Frederick Douglass
"The bigger the government, the smaller the citizen." -- Dennis Prager
"The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it." --H.L. Mencken
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