We talk about war, we never forget it is politics. But those who go to war are humans asked to do things that humans are not intended to do.

With every success, when the final tally is cast, comes incredible sadness. We mourn the losses of those who fought the good fight, those who never fielded weapons but served those who did, those of the innocent who got in the way, those who were persecuted for their faith and those who were killed through others’ egos.

While no movie, screenplay nor series can ever capture that hell, we are gifted by productions the likes of Apple TV’s Masters of the Air, first streamed in 2023, and still contemporary to its story’s survivors and recently deceased who served in the Allied bomber war of WW2 against Nazi Germany.

I implore you to watch it and persevere through its saga to feel the emotion of that truth from the comfort of your chair.

Then remember that those who take to our streets today with Red Triangles of Death and Swastikas are the same cowards that we defeated in WW2. That those who seek the revision of history, especially the Holocaust, in academia and media to feed those streets are merely part of the same evil.

The only difference now is that in WW2 a dictator in the guise of nationalism brought that evil, whereas today social media replaces dictatorship with narcissism. And politics is more than ever ripe for the ego.

© 2026 Adam Parker.

Picture credit: Listen to the 6-part podcast brought to you by the wonderful National WWII Museum in New Orleans: Making Masters of the Air. Available at Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Public domain.