There is always more than one way!
Thursdays June 26, 2008 marks the sixth anniversary of the start of: The LeMay Coal and Feed Delivery Service, The Candy Bomber Brigade! A/K/A The Berlin Airlift started 60 years ago Thursday.
The Soviets had closed off West Berlin!
They couldn't be supplied with life's necessities! The West Berliners faced starvation or capitulation! Continued attempts to supply Berlin by road or rail meant certain war with the Soviets. The nay sayers proclaimed "It couldn't be done!"
But! When faced with need or adversity, there is always more than one way! The job fell to Major General Curtis LeMay, then commanding the USAAF in Europe. Using the small transports and bombers left over from WW II, the same planes that had delivered paratroopers and bombs to Germany less than 4 years earlier, he/we feed the Berliners by air until the Soviets relented almost a year later on May 12, 1949.
The over worked pilots, bought moments of joy to otherwise depressed/repressed young victims of adult political tyranny, by dropping candy out the windows of their planes.
There is always more than one way, wisdom we'd do well to remember in our everyday lives.
Bill
William J Archambault Jr
The Real Estate Investment Institute
