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What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

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Sunday Pith Helmet
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Not words I hear every day: "sunday pith helmet". You pull them off very well.
 
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I have been using this name around the internet for many years. Actually, my WWI ace that I specialize in is a guy named Ernst Udet. He was second to the Red Baron in victories at 62. He painted his Fokker DVII red to emulate his idol Richthofen. He ended up surviving the war and was kind of a rock star in Germany in the interwar years. He became one of Hitler's Luftwaffe Generals early on. He however was made a scapegoat for the failure of Fat Herman (Goering) not winning the battle of Britain and committed suicide in 1942. I'm a history geek of the Great War as well as OSU History.
Off topic maybe, but Anthony Fokker knew how to wear a fine hat too. He wore this on this very day in 1923 (made that up, but who knows?).

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Margaret Thatcher once said

"The spirit of envy can destroy, it can never build"

I respectfully disagree Baroness .... envy for Alan's hat collection keeps mine building pretty regularly

I apologize to you and your lovely family, Anthony, for inflicting the bite of the hatwolf. A silver bullet would be fair punishment the next time we get together.
 
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