The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 6, February 6, 2005, Article 14

BLUE MAX MEDAL QUIZ ANSWER

Dave Wnuck writes: "I'm beginning to wonder if you
have my office bugged! A few days before I received
this week's E-sylum, my father had given me some
information about the German Pour le Merite (Order
of Merit) medal that you wrote about in the 1/30/2005
issue.

My father told me he found two recipients of that award
that shared our last name. Since there are very few
people worldwide that share our last name even today,
we can be pretty certain that these men were our
ancestors. How timely!

This same phenomenon (the E-sylum paralleling my
personal life) has happened so frequently that I
wonder if perhaps someone on the enormous E-sylum
staff has been assigned to follow me around! In any
case, keep up the great work."

The E-Sylum sees all, knows all...

Last week I asked, "who was the most famous
awardee of The Blue Max medal? No fair snooping
around!"

Alan Meghrig writes: "The Red Baron" "Rickthoven"
from an old movie... for better spelling or more of the
name... I would have to 'snoop around'."

[Bingo! Charlie Brown's dog Snoopy, in the old Peanuts
cartoon series, often donned goggles and a scarf to
become WWI Flying Ace "The Red Baron.,"
Manfred von Richthofen. -Editor]

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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