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There were some accidents in the past werethrough planes broke up in mid-air (Pan-Am, Air India, China Airlines, TWA). This had several causes like bombs or fatigue or whatever.

However, all of them are considered relatively old planes, by modern standards!

Are planes nowadays designed to survive a sudden hole, is explosive or uncontrolled decompression more sustainable for the pilors, just wondering!

I'm probably arriving in a few weeks in the United States but do not want to fly to Bozeman directly!

I would love to land in a bigger city and after some sightseeing travel to Bozeman by road or rail!

However, there is no passenger train going to Bozeman and I heard some troubling things about the Grey Hound on this site, don't know how serious that is but ok.

I'm arriving from Amsterdam and any route is fine.

I was thinking to land my plane in New York.

Go with the train to Fargo ND and travel with the bus to Bozeman.

Maybe someone else has other tips.

Hugo Boss was a Nazi, he produced clothing for the SS, and used slave laboury. He was not just someone who signed up because he had to, but because he really loved the fascist ideology, his past was not very known for a long time.

But would you now, with this knowledge, still use Hugo Boss or demand an official apology from your local Hugo Boss store or office?

This summer I was chosen for the Taglit Birthright Experience.

The problem is that I go that sick with flue just before leaving my country of residence that I wasn't able to get on a plane and do the experience.

My 250 dollar fee I can't get back, I know that and that is just unlucky, but I'm still hoping that I can be elected for the next opportunity to make the trip with Taglit.

But I don't know and hope that someone can answer my question.

Thanks in advance

In 1808 former US-president Zachary Taylor became a first lieutenant in the US army.

But nowhere I can discover a military education or something.

Did he just join the army in that year and got this rank thanks to his prominent family?

Or did he follow a military education before?

With her irritating accent and her upperclass atitude she just irritates me.

Even that Bridget would be way better to look at in my opinion.

Gunter Grass served in his youth for Hitler's Waffen-SS in Nazi Germany and eventually was caught and locked up in an American prisoner camp.

He, while winning the nobel prize for literature in 1999 an praised for many other 'intellectual' stuff, only admitted these facts in 2006 while he critized before this time many other Nazi's for their part in the war. Many people all over Europe were furious especially when he himself became angered on people criticizing him for his SS-past.

A few days ago Gunter Grass published in many newspapers all over the world a critizing article on Israel stating that not Iran but Israel is the real danger.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/04/gunter...

The reaction on his article were mixed. The German politicians tried to distance themselves from his words but criticized Israel for denying Grass' acces to Israel (while every former member of the SS isn't allowed to enter by Israeli law).

Especially Grass' defense was received all over Europe with mixed feelings because he stated that he expected to be called anti-semitic because of his nationality (while almost everyone knew that Grass would be criticized because of his membership with the SS and not his nationality).

Grass responded that his words were only ment ment for the current Israeli government.

Other German people shouted that the German people also should be allowed to criticize Israel despite their bloody history during the Second World War (while for many Europeans it was not the question that a German critized Israel but that a former member of the Waffen-SS published these words).

So in Europe it became a debate if a once moral example, fallen deeper and deeper after his admittance that he joined the SS, should ever stated words like these on Israel.

And in Germany it became a debate if a German should criticize Israel or not (because of his weak defense).

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What is your opinion on this very important debate?

My opinion is that a German nowadays should be carefull what to say on Israel but should speak his mind if somethings bothers him within a reasonable context ofcource.

But as a former member of the Waffen-SS Gunter Grass should know better and that's why he has to withdraw his words in my opinion or accept that people doubt his real intentions.

They just seem to repeat hardliners like Santorium for example without really understanding the consequences. Are they affraid of a dominant government, and if this is true, why didn't they complain on the scary Patriot Act by George W. Bush, while social security, would, really help.

I think, with as expansion the American Civil War, the Crimean War, German Unification, Italian Unification, and WWI that it would be a wonderfull game. In addition, a new gamemethod with WWI would be the start for a Total War game with WWII as main subject.