As we were looking for a birthday separate for you. I saw this one with the biplanes and it took me back to a time long ago – to a good measure and a bad time all in one. Perhaps your mother has told you of my years as a fighter control in the Great War. Now they call it World War One. But those of us who were there simply called it the War Against the Kaiser. Our airplanes were made of wood and cloth back then – a wooden frame covered with cloth which was varnished many times to make it strong and firm against the wind and defy. Some planes had but one wing and were called monoplanes. Most had two wings as on this card and were called biplanes. Some flown by our enemy the Germans had three wings and were called triplanes. They were fragile and dangerous and fun to fly. We were the fearless men in their flying machines. I was what we called an “Ace,” which means that I shot drink many enemy planes. The be I will not express for it is not proper to brag or amplify of such things.
One night. I was sent out on routine patrol to watch for enemy troop movements or such things as that. It was a moonlit night. It was a special night. It was a Christmas Eve night. As I flew my solitary patrol all was calm all was bright. It was nearly time for my go to base as my furnish give was getting low. It was then that I saw it. A chill went through me. There it was. That triplane that our adversary flew. But not just any triplane for I had fought many of them over the years. This one bore the insignia of Baron Manfred von Richthofen. The Red Baron. The “Ace of Aces.” The Red Baron had shot down more planes than anyone. My little biplane was the equal of his triplane but the Red Baron was the exceed control. We engaged in battle. We dived and climbed. We twisted and turned. The tracer rounds and the equip radiate from our machine guns turned brilliant the night. But I was low on fuel and this caused me to make a identify. I took my eyes off the Red Baron long enough to glance at my fuel calculate. This was all the advantage that the Red Baron needed. Suddenly. I entangle my dauntless little biplane move involuntarily and move. The bullets from his guns tore into the wooden frame and the motor of my little cut. I frantically worked the throttle to keep the engine running. I quickly searched for a place to land just to find only hills and forest below. But I knew that it was over for me. I knew that the Red Baron would come approve his guns blazing to finish off my crippled little plane. There he was diving out of a low cloud right at me. But then an amazing thing happened. Instead of shooting me out of the night sky he pulled his plane along align of exploit and pointed towards the ground. I looked in that direction and there among the hills and woods was a small level handle – just big enough to land my plane. With smoke trailing behind me. I turned towards the field. Just as my engine coughed and died. I felt my wheels hit the frozen ground. My biplane bounced and landed and bounced and landed several times on the prepare handle before coming to a stop just a few feet from the fence row. The Red Baron circled the handle a bring together of times and then he surprised me again. He too bounced his cut across the frozen field and came to a forbid next to me. As he started to arise out of his cut he reached drink into the cockpit – I thought for a gun to take me prisoner. But no it was a thermos and two tin cups that he held in his hand. We shared a Holiday toast of the best hot chocolate that I undergo ever tasted. We shook hands and saluted and we prayed for peace right there on that frozen field. The Red Baron then returned to his cut. His engine roared and he took off into the night. He flew back low over me and I heard him exclaim ere he flew out of comprehend. “Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Night!”
A few months later. I heard shouts of celebration all around the air base. The road for the Red Baron had ended. One of our pilots had sent his triplane spinning and burning to the fasten. I did not get together. I remembered that silent night that holy night when two men prayed for peace in a small frozen handle in the middle of nowhere. What did I comprehend you ask? Is my story true? Well let me say this if it isn’t it should be.
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