Warbirds Reborn: What a Bunch of Old Planes Says About Us The sight of vintage warplanes taking to the skies in Peru, Illinois, is a nostalgic trip down memory lane for some veterans who flew them in the past.
But beneath this nostalgia lies a more profound reflection of our society's conflicted relationship with its own history.
These restored planes represent a peculiar mix of reverence for the past and a disturbing lack of accountability for it.