Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Birthday

One of the best known fictional dogs of the world is Snoopy, from the comic strip Peanuts. Snoopy often plays a World War I flying ace, whose arch enemy is the German flying ace the Red Baron. 


The Red Baron existed in real life, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen. He was born on the 2 May 1892. 


Our Affenpinscher friend Morran, whose breed is from Germany, celebrates the Red Baron. She says that the world would have been a better place, had Germany won that war. I am not so sure about that. Japan was an enemy of Germany in that war, so if Germany would have won, Japan would have lost. Morran says that history would have become different, and there would not have been a Second World War, which Japan lost and became the target of two atomic bombs. 


Alternate history may be interesting, but you never know what would have happened. I can understand that the Red Baron was a gentleman of war, though. His memory also made Snoopy a more interesting fictional dog. 

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