What they achieved or, in Ritter's case, tried desperately to achieve, was important and came with incredible risk to body and soul. Lindbergh was a nazi-phile and anti-semite. But is still an icon because of his crossing of the Atlantic. Ritter likes young girls, but he tried valiantly to save his Country from a horrible, bloody, and needless war.
Lindbergh liked Hitler. Somehow his achievement is tarnished, coated in anti-semitic (yes, that too) crud. This bothers the hell out of me and makes it impossible to respect the man or his memory. His achievement? I honor it. Him? Not so much.
Ritter like(s) young girls. Somehow, I don't give a damn. What the right wing did to him was, effectively, to shut him up and prevent him from helping his nation avoid a blood bath, avoid the deaths of thousands of young Americans, the maiming of 10's of thousands of others, the killing and maiming of 100's of thousands of Iraqi, the further disruption of order in a very troubled part of the world. Yes, Ritter tried to do this but was brought down by enemies in high places -- and the media
Yet we worship Charlie and, if we ("we the people"
even hear about Ritter it is to scorn and disrespect him.
Scot Ritter is a hero for trying to tell us that the Government was lying and was going to get a lot of people killed. The Government made sure his warnings went largely unheard.
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