Please click on this link to a 2010 Slice column and read the short item just above the question of the day, the one about the Thunderbirds.

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/aug/08/the-slice-even-picnic-tables-need-protection/

A few of my readers were bent out of shape about it. That's fine.

But one email, I still remember.

A guy who said he had served under my father (a career Air Force officer) wrote and I said owed my dad an apology for questioning the values underpinning the Thunderbirds. He went on at some length.

The thing is, my father had died in 2007 -- a fact known to my readers.

I wrote the guy back. And, unless he has adopted a fake name, I have not heard from him again.

But I still remember thinking that some who seek to wrap themselves in a cloak of honor don't know the first thing about it.

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