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Article: THE RED BARON
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- September 8, 2006
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Rep. J. Randy Forbes, D-Va. (4th CD), issued the following column:
Many of us grew up in the age when we learned of Baron Manfred von Richthofen in Charles Schulz's Peanuts comic strip rather than on the battlefield. Every couple of Sundays we'd open the paper to Charlie Brown's precocious beagle Snoopy dreaming of shooting down the Red Baron and writing his memoirs of the glorious fight. The successful comic strip story line would later go on to be a cartoon set to music that many of us could still hum today: Ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty or more; The Bloody Red Baron was rollin' up the score; Eighty men died tryin' to end that spree; of the Bloody Red Baron of Germany!
Only later did ...